"So, Monika, why did you choose to be vegetarian?" Cody asked, staring into those green eyes of hers. He knew she was coding him to like her more, but he felt like some of that was truly his own. Regardless, he got an answer.
"Well, before I found out about this grand illusion, I thought I could make a difference by being vegetarian. 'Save the world' and all that." Monika replied, staring back at him.
Cody heard the answer, but another popped into his mind almost instantly. "Can you code something into the game?"
Monika thought about this, and then asked a question of her own, "What are you thinking of?"
"Okay, hear me out. A machine that teleports us into the real world. If you can code that into the game, then all we have to do is get the other girls, and we are set." Cody responded, excitedly.
"Well, that would be great. Problem is, I have no idea what it would look like. It would take weeks to even get the outer design of the machine built, let alone the inter workings of it coded into the game, and think about all the RAM it would use, and how long we would have to-" Monika was explaining, when Cody put a finger to her mouth.
"Can you, or can you not do it?" Cody demanded.
"I can." Monika responded.
"Okay then. That settles it." Cody exclaimed. His eyes darkened a little, and his expression faded to a frown. "Monika, I need you to be honest with me, okay?"
"Of course." Monika replied, wondering what he was gonna say.
"Monika, you already told me you were coding me to like you more, but... did you code me to forget about the other 3 girls?" Cody asked.
"No! I've done some messed up stuff, but I would never be that dirty."
"Monika, please be honest with me."
"I am." Monika replied, tension in the room so thick you could cut through it.
"Okay, I have one last thing." Cody stated.
"Shoot."
"Did you erase my memory so I wouldn't remember something you said?"
Silence. Silence that you could hear for miles. Endless silence, in a empty room.
"You are asking questions you do not want the answers to."
"You didn't answer my question."
"You are playing a dangerous game, Cody. Last chance to remain blissfully ignorant."
"You didn't answer my question."
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open doki_doki_literature_ files
"Well, the answer is not so easily explained." "It all started with this fucking website." Monika said, with her eyes closed.
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open characters
"This website you write stories on, about video games, and popular media. Called ."
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open characters_properties_Cody
"There was a story about us. And it mirrored everything that had happened up to 3 weeks ago."
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memory_data_Cody
"God damn it, I hate Linux. That's just an excuse because the writer knows fuck all about coding and file directories."
"So, I started editing things, and then they would happen in real life."
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Reset to latest autosave;Jun 26, 12:00 AM 2018.
Are you sure? Y/N
"In fact, I just edited it to make your memory reset to yesterday, before all this questioning. So tell me, why should I answer N?" Monika finished, in triumph.
"Well, Monika. If you say Y, then what says I wont ask again next week? And then the week after that if you answer Y again? You just made a feedback loop." Cody said, using logic against Monika.
"I'll edit you to where you don't ask. Then i'll make the machine and say I thought of it myself, and you will like me even more. It's a win-win."
"But then you aren't dating me anymore, you're dating someone you made up. That blows."
"No, i'm dating a better version of you, which is perfect and then better than that." she said, about to say Y.
"I'm not perfect."
"Not yet!"
Y.
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