"That person?"
Okabe Rintaro opened the envelope and found that the name on the letter was Hashida Suzu.
"Could it be that... Where is the person who wrote this letter? Where is she now?"
In response to Okabe Rintaro's statement, the store manager replied in silence:
"She died ten years ago."
"… "
For a moment, everyone was silent and focused their attention on the letter in front of them.
Open the letter—
"Mr. Okabe Rintaro, long time no see. I'm Amanone Suzuha, but to you it may have been just a few hours ago. Now it is June 13, 2000. Here I only write down the conclusion—failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, I failed!"
"Almost a year ago, I remembered who I was. In the past 24 years, I lost my memory and time travel did not go smoothly because the time machine was not completely repaired. But my father was not wrong, it was my fault. It would have been better if I had jumped back to 1975 directly. I should not have taken a detour to 2010. Because of my little willfulness, the future cannot be changed at all. I did not get IBN5100."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Why on earth have I lived to this age? I forgot my mission and just lived a leisurely life. Forgive me! Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me!"
"Okabe Rintaro, after that offline time machine party, you kept me who wanted to go back to 1975. It was because you kept me that the time machine was damaged by the rainstorm. If time could go back, I hope you wouldn't keep me that day. Such a life is simply meaningless..."
"… "
For a moment, everyone in the movie screen was silent, and the audience outside the screen were all stunned. They felt a chill down their spines and stood there in a daze.
Chapter 337: The second part of Steins;Gate is released! (VIII)
Chapter 337
Awanyin Lingyu's letter shocked all the audience. No one expected that this would be the result when the other party got on the time machine.
More than twenty years of amnesia, and waking up from a dream before death, this dull and wasted life even makes people unable to understand whether all this is a blessing or a curse.
Of course, from the last moment, when Awanone Lingyu wrote this letter and expressed her despair with words of great regret, all this tragedy was irreversible.
"… "
The audience couldn't even give any comment on this result at once. They could only watch the scene continue bit by bit and listen to the manager of the repair shop begin to talk about the other person's life after traveling to the past.
…
In the movie, the plot in the picture continues.
After reading the contents of the letter, Okabe Rintaro couldn't help but go to the manager of the repair shop who stayed to find him and asked him about the last condition of Amanone Suzuha before her death.
In response to this, the manager of the repair shop said helplessly:
"Ms. Ling committed suicide. She hanged herself at home. One year before her accident, her mental state suddenly became extremely unstable. Before that, she had always been a cheerful and gentle person."
"… "
After hearing this answer, everyone in the research institute fell silent. They stood there at a loss, completely without any spirit.
After returning to the institute, Okabe Rintaro murmured in despair:
"It's all my fault. It's my fault that I left Suzuha behind that day. That's why the time machine broke down. If I hadn't sent that D-mail, Suzuha would have been able to successfully return to 1975."
After saying this, he immediately turned on the telephone oven next to him and used his mobile phone to send a text message inside, trying to use D-mail to influence history again and change his behavior of stopping Awanone Lingyu.
For this reason, Mayuri on the side couldn't help but say:
"Don't do that, Okabe. If you do that, everything that happened before will be gone! All the memories with Suzuha will become 'things that never happened'!"
Despite Mayuri's obstruction, Okabe Rintaro, who was already filled with regret, finally pressed the button on his phone.
In an instant, the screen went black again.
A large number of numbers began to float, and finally, everything stopped at the number 0.409431.
…
After a long time, another D-mail was sent by Okabe Ryutaro himself.
Now, compared to the previous confusion, the audience has roughly understood the meaning of the numbers in the picture.
Coupled with the tragic ending of Awanone Lingyu before, people finally couldn't help but burst into discussion and discussed the current plot.
"Okabe Rintaro sent another D-mail. Can he change the ending of Amanone Suzuha?"
"I don't know, but I really didn't expect that Amanone Suzuha would encounter such a result after returning to the past. A full 25 years of wasted time, but in the eyes of Okabe Ryutaro and others, it was just a moment. Time travel is really terrifying and shocking."
"It's really hard for me to imagine what the world would be like if someone could actually time travel."
"Yes, originally Awanone Lingyu was a worker taken in by the manager of the repair shop in this timeline, but because she traveled through time and space, she actually became the adoptive mother who took him in. This situation is simply too unimaginable."
"But in a sense, this is indeed like fate, because Awanin Suzuha adopted the manager of the repair shop, and the manager later took in the young Awanin Suzuha. Everything is cause and effect."
"But it's still too much of a mess. If time can really be controlled, wouldn't the cause and effect of this world be completely reversed and no longer be able to maintain stability?"
"So I guess time travel is impossible after all..."
"But speaking of which, Okabe Ryutaro had used the time jump device to go back in time several times before, but in the end it didn't change the world line. Instead, the world line was changed directly after sending the D-mail. In other words, the D-mail is the key to changing the world line?"
"0.409431, compared to the previous 0.337187, this number is closer to 1%. Does it mean that we are one step closer to the β world line?"
“It’s very likely.”
"… "
All of a sudden, people's voices rang out in major cinemas.
Everyone was shocked by the plot of the movie and had wild thoughts in their minds.
At the same time, people are also very curious about the D-mail sent by Ryutaro Okabe, and they want to know what kind of changes will happen after the world line changes this time.
…
In the movie, after changing the world line, Okabe Rintaro immediately went downstairs to look for the manager of the repair shop.
The first thing Okabe Rintaro asked the other party was whether he knew someone named Hashida Suzu.
The manager of the repair shop also clearly stated that he knew him.
This made Okabe Rintaro breathe a sigh of relief, realizing that Amanone Suzuha's time travel should have been successful, but his expression became even sadder, because he knew that this also meant that the memories he had created with the other party, as well as the memories of other people in the institute, were all erased.
On the other side, the repair shop manager continued to tell everything he remembered.
"It's been more than ten years now. She really took good care of me in the beginning. I want to at least give her a final farewell."
"What? Is she dead? Committed suicide?"
In response to Okabe Rintaro's anxious look, the repair shop manager replied:
"What? She died of illness. The house she lived in is where I live now. Look, the bicycle over there was her favorite before she died. I still can't bear to throw it away, so I just left it here for ten years."
"is that so?"
"Yes, at first Ms. Ling and I were just neighbors, but one day there was a fire in my house and it burned down completely, so Ms. Ling let me, who had nothing, live in her house."
"Has she been alone until then?"
"She doesn't look like she's married. I always feel like she's an incredible person. I still don't understand why she's so nice to me, a stranger. I actually asked her the same question at the time, and she smiled and replied, 'Cause and effect flow, people always need help from others to survive, so please help others as well.'"
As he spoke, the store manager suddenly took out the world line detector and said:
"Oh, this is Ms. Ling's thing. Do you know what this number is? Before she died, Ms. Ling had been looking at this number and kept muttering, was this number before or after the change? Did I change this number? She kept muttering to herself until the end..."
Okabe Rintaro was stunned by the store manager's remarks.
He stared blankly at the numbers that had changed a lot, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
Chapter 338: The second part of Steins;Gate is released! (Part 9)
Chapter 338
"The world line rate has changed, but it still does not exceed 1%."
In the movie, Okabe Rintaro was thinking about the world line detector he had seen before, and suddenly recalled Mayuri's story.
Realizing that the time of Mayuri's original death was very close in this world, he immediately hurried back to the laboratory and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the girl.
"Now, has everything changed? Have both Suzuha and Mayuri been redeemed?"
Although he asked himself this in his heart, Okabe Rintaro knew that he would never get the answer.
…
At the same time, seeing the content of the movie, all the audience couldn't help but think.
At this moment, most people felt the same way as Okabe Rintaro, thinking that since the world line had changed, the death that Mayuri had always been destined to face might be avoided.
Even the magicians of the Imperial Academy of Magic think so on this point.
After all, they had just been discussing the topic of the world line, and finally felt that since the world line had changed, Mayuri's death should be avoidable.
However, the magicians did not reach a conclusion regarding the 1% β world line. After all, up to now, this term has only been uttered by Awanone Lingyu, and no one knows what changes will happen to the world in the movie once this boundary is crossed.
Therefore, people can only focus their attention on the movie again and look forward to more changes in the plot of "Steins;Gate" in the future.
…
In the movie, it is the next night.
Okabe Rintaro looked at everyone in the research institute and couldn't feel at ease.
Although one day had passed since Mayuri's original death, he still had no idea what actions Kiryu Moeka would take.
At this moment, Mayuri in the distance suddenly said something that made his heart and lungs stop.
"Huh? Why did Mayuki's pocket watch stop? That's weird. I just wound it up."
In an instant, as soon as she finished speaking, the door of the institute was rudely opened by a group of people.
Okabe Rintaro watched Mayuri fall to the ground, and as if by reflex, he immediately used the time jumping device beside him to leave this time and space again.
When Okabe Rintaro traveled through time and came to his senses, he immediately found Makise Kurisu and asked for help.
Makise Kurisu learned everything about this, and after comforting Okabe Rintaro for a while, she frowned and said:
"According to Ms. Awanin, if we can jump from the α world line we are in now to the β world line, Mayuri may be saved. Therefore, we must obtain IBN5100 and eliminate the data obtained by SERN."
Hearing her words, Okabe Rintaro replied:
"However, the IBN5100 that was originally located at the shrine disappeared as the world line moved."
"Yes, among the D-mails sent so far, the ones that caused the world line to move were those from Mark Six, Ms. Kiryu, Ms. Ryukako, Ms. Ferris, and the deleted Ms. Awanon. After deleting Ms. Awanon's email, the attack was delayed by one day. In other words, if all the D-mails are deleted, perhaps we can return to the world line with IBN5100."
"this!!"
Upon hearing this idea, Okabe Rintaro's eyes widened. Although this statement had no basis, he still couldn't help but want to try it.
So, Okabe Rintaro made another time jump.
Before jumping, he expressed his gratitude to Makise Kurisu and called her by her name.
In response, Makise Kurisu replied with a hint of disappointment:
"After the world line changes, I won't remember the name you called me."
"… "
In silence, Okabe Rintaro traveled through time again.
…
The scenes in the movie left the audience stunned.
Not to mention Mayuri's second death, deleting the D-mails that had been sent in the past to save everything, this kind of thing makes the audience feel weird no matter how they think about it.
After all, deleting the sent D-mails means changing the current world line, which also means changing everyone's memory and erasing things that have already happened.
For those who cannot feel the change in the world line, these things may just be an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, but for Okabe Ryutaro, who has all the memories, experienced everything personally, but erased it all with his own hands, it is an indescribable loneliness.
After all, no one can imagine that a close friend yesterday would forget many things that happened between them in the next second, and even completely forget about themselves.
This is what Okabe Rintaro is experiencing right now.
…
Going back to the past, Okabe Ryutaro first found Phyllis. The other party had previously asked him to send a D-mail to the past in exchange for clues about IBN5100, which directly led to the complete disappearance of IBN5100. However, Okabe Ryutaro himself did not know what the content of the D-mail was.
So, he brought up the matter directly. Even though the other party had no memory after the world line changed, Okabe Ryutaro told him everything.