Valentwst Day 1:

Day 1 Prompt: Cupid | “Do you want to play a little game?”

Synopsis: In which Ace finds himself loving you every time. A fruitless love that he’ll write a letter to.

Start a new game?

[ >Yes No ]

Loading new game…

Error! Code: 707

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New message from ‘Ace’

Would you like to open it?

[ >Yes No ]

I wonder how long it’s been since I’ve been stuck in this never-ending loop. The same week starts over and over after something goes terribly wrong or too well — I always wondered why it was me that should bear the burden of looking after you in each timeline. It would always start the same: I’ll bump into you and that little rascal, get into trouble, and eventually turn into friends along with Deuce.

But in every timeline, it would branch off into different events after that point — as if I was just part of a prologue in a game you were playing. In every timeline, you would fall in love with one of the students in NRC, each time a different guy you end up with.

It was weird. I thought I was cursed, but I soon figured out that it wasn’t the case all along. Who would’ve thought we’d be literally a game to you? A dating sim at that! No wonder you were always running around to different people every timeline… it all finally made sense to me.

I was relieved but that only meant that in every timeline… I would have to watch you fall for someone else. I guess it would’ve been fine under normal circumstances but I guess I made things more complicated for myself.

I like you — more than you probably think or more than this game will allow me. You’ve only picked me once in your countless routes but I guess feelings die hard, huh? You picked me as your first route too… I can’t help but think of you as a little cruel for making me witness all of that with these kinds of feelings in tow.

I watched you fall in love with Deuce, I watched you save Vil from overblotting, I watched you hug Trey at the back of the dorm building, and many more. It kinda hurts each time, you know? By the time you’re reading this you must’ve reached the 'True Ending’ of the game and finished it.

But…

I’d like to ask you to play one more little game with me. Well, it’s more of a promise but think of it as a game in a program, yeah? When you grow older… I want you to find your true happiness — whether it be finding a partner, starting a family, getting your dream job, or starting a hobby… I want you to find it. And when you do, no matter how many years pass by, I want you to open this game again and play through my route one more time.

Bah! But then again, you might just think this whole message is a virus. Well, it’s worth a shot after all the efforts I went through to send this to you.

To you, behind this screen, this is my last request. That’s the secret key to my after story… Only then will you unlock the 'After Story’ I sought after.

Well, That is the end of the story. Time is running out.

A new save file cannot be opened. Restarting the game…

Until we meet again, 'Yuu’.