It may be questionable as to why I'd want to rewrite the original One-way into Shibuya as well as the whole series in question. It seemed to be going well with One-way into Marioland and the series in general was doing well.

That is, until I started seeing many errors I could fix with the series. I do not intend to delete any of the One-way series, mainly due to the fact this story series is one of my earliest accomplishments on this website. Various things didn't make sense, however.

My main problem comes with certain parts of One-way into Shibuya and One-way out of Shibuya where OCs were involved. I kinds just recycled my OCs and it overall made a mess. One-way out of Shibuya also ended up being rushed in parts. There was also some of my old habits present in the stories that may have made it hard to read.

So, here I am. I'm going to start the story from scratch. Of course, our main character, Penelope, isn't going to change (much), but there will be a slightly different scenario with how things are executed and how the characters interact.

I don't own The World Ends With You. Square Enix does. However, I do own my OCs.

Here's the prologue.

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Prologue: How The Mess Started

I've always been proud of my gaming abilities. My friends tell I'm obsessed (though everyone has their obsessions, so I don't know what they're talking about).

I can confess that I do enjoy completing every single mission and objection perfectly in a game if they have them. Maybe it's an act of absurd perfectionism; maybe an urge; or maybe a bit of OCD tendencies. It could be an act of one, two or all three. Still, I have plenty of time and patience. I pay attention in school, I get my work done. And with that, I'm able to juggle my time well.

Still, despite the fact I can manage my time well during the school season, my friends insist that most of my so-called 'obsession' shines through during the summer seasons. Especially if I've gotten a new game and I want to complete it. They get worried about me when I lock myself in my room out of focus and somehow manage to pull off all-nighters when I'm driven into a game.

I make sure to take care of myself, however. It's not like I'm not that ignorant of my own needs.

I guess the problem with my intense desire to perfectly complete games shone through when a game called "The World Ends With You" came out. I found out that with this goddamn game, you can't fully complete it and get all the pins noting that you did need to use the multiplayer function as some pins will only show up in one game.

Because of this, I made my friends get a copy of the game with me. The most unapproving of the idea was my friend Akira Yamada. Akira is a musical prodigy with the piano and he's incredibly devoted to his music. However, Akira hates video games. I mean, I convinced him to get a DS, and he has a couple of games, but he rarely plays them and usually ends up being indifferent and apathetic to them. Upon persuading Akira to get "The World Ends With You" by using the bandwagon technique (and some feminine charm), he did attempt to play it.

But, like he usually does with games, he got bored. He ended up giving me his copy of the game.

Initially, I wanted to get two copies of the game so I'd have a better chance at completing it. However, my grandmother didn't allow it.

Here's the problem with my copy of "The World Ends With You" though. I found a problem with mine as I was progressing through it. For one thing, it took me three weeks on that copy. Normally, that never happens.

"Three weeks? Well, the game must be pretty long then."

Well, yeah. That's what I initially thought until I played through the copy Akira gave me. I was able to get through the game in a much shorter timespan than with my copy.

However, with my copy of the game, the problem with the day progression as that as soon as I was finished with one mission; for some reason, the game decided to run on real time and wouldn't let me play until the next day.

I don't know why the game decided to stop me from playing. It didn't even take me that long to complete the missions either, but something was off about my game. However, I decided to be ignorant about it because maybe I conveniently got a special edition copy.

I mean, I was able to 100% the game up until the "Another Day" story.

And now, I list yet another problem about my strange copy of TWEWY. I remember during Week 2 especially, I was feeling on edge. I kinda got this feeling someone was watching me. Like they were consciously aware I was in control of the game and what was happening in it. Joshua, or Yoshiya Kiryu, Neku's second partner and the Composer of the Shibuya District in the game gave me the chills.

He didn't in Akira's copy, but in mine, I could've sworn he was watching me and was consciously aware of my existence as the player truly controlling the path of the game.

Going back to the end of Week 3, Day 7, as soon as I beat the final boss and the credits rolled and I unlocked what I needed to, I didn't go to the "Another Day" story right away because I didn't want to deal with the Tin Pin Minigame. That was the whole reason I didn't want to even attempt it because I absolutely loathe Tin Pin and I see the point of it, but I don't like it.

But, I also couldn't go to it because once again, the game wouldn't let me do a damn thing!

I don't like being restricted from doing something in a game. It stops the progression and leaves the player in chains.

For some reason, I seem to be the only one who has this problem. My friend Makoto managed to finish the game before me because Akira gave me his copy a week into playing the game. Makoto has never finished a game before me until the incident with my copy.

Just as a side note, this isn't the same Makoto from TWEWY. I recall one of the lesser characters in that game being named Makoto, but trust me, this isn't the same guy.

…Yes, yes, I know I keep getting off-topic in aspects.

So, back to what I was saying, the game didn't let me go to the "Another Day" mission. Instead, I heard a very familiar and ominous voice in my head. "The clock's ticking, Penerope. I wonder when you'll decide to make it stop."

That didn't happen at the end of Akira's copy of the game, so I was guessing I was just hearing things.

For a majority of playing "The World Ends With You", the game ended up becoming far more stressful than necessary. Especially because it just didn't let me play and I was hearing voices and feeling unnerved. It was basically stupid little things like that that was causing problems for me. I also mostly played it on my 3DS.

So, when I decided to put the game in today out of a strange urge, I decided to use my DS Lite. I had my M'sieur Lapin plush my grandmother made me (Gramma Yuri made it for my birthday as it was my favorite item in TWEWY) and my 3DS by my side in its case when I put the game in. My cell phone was also in my pocket at the time.

I'll be blunt when I'm saying this, however.

As soon as I decided to load up that game, all hell broke loose.