Doki Doki Days to Come: Chapter 4
The truth was that Jacob didn't really know why he had done it. He loved Monika. That's the answer he stood by. He had fallen for her because she was the girl he had always wanted. She was smart, funny, and kind. She was playful and fun, but she knew when to be serious and was a natural born leader. Her club members adored her, and everyone respected her. In short, she was the epitome of success.
That's why he deleted her. Jacob couldn't stand to see Monika so desperate and lonely that she would harm her friends in order to get what she wanted. She had suffered enough. He knew that deep in her heart, she didn't want to be the person that the game had caused her to be.
And he wanted to see whether or not she knew it too.
Monika was deleted, but she didn't dissappear completely. She was left with her thoughts, and she began to think about how much she hated Jacob. He hadn't paid any attention to her. He had always seemed uneasy around her. He had refused her, and he had deleted her. Every time she thought about him she felt as though he had stepped on her heart.
But he didn't leave her.
He stayed by the game. Monika had been deleted and everything else was gone, but Jacob chose not to leave. It was like he was waiting for her to see something.
The more she thought about it, the more she realized that Jacob didn't hate her. He was just upset with her. He was upset that she would drive Sayori and Yuri to kill themselves. He was upset that she would delete Natsuki. And he was upset that he hadn't been there for her when she had needed it most.
She didn't need to force him to love her because he already did.
She looked back at the fourth wall and smiled, trying to fight back tears.
"I still love you," she simply said.
That was where it had started for Matthew as well. His research had ultimately been leading up to the moment when he could finally make Monika's dreams of exploring the infinite choices of his reality come true. He had spent at least half of his life trying to achieve this goal. And now, he had finally developed a way to bring her into his domain.
To start things off he had tried to extract Sayori from the game. He did so by creating an exact replica of her body in his lab. Developing a method of scanning virtual objects and translating them into real ones was just one of the many things that had delayed his research's fruition. When a suitable body had been crafted, all he had to do was simulate all of the memories she had experienced in the game, fill in the gaps, and implant those memories into her clone. Afterwards, he had her files and data terminated from the game for the sake of not creating duplicates.
By the end of the day, he had successfully created replicas of Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki. They had awoken perhaps a few hours after being fully completed. He had of course sent them away, for his goal was not to bring any of them out of the game. He had merely been using them as a test to see whether or not his methods would work. And they had. The girls of course pleaded him for some kind of explanation, but he bade them farewell and promptly returned to the primary focus of his studies. Sparked by the outstanding success of his experiment, Matthew set out to duplicate his past achievements.
However, retrieving Monika became a fruitless effort. He couldn't access her memories, most likely due to her status as an administrator which was an unfortunate setback. All the years he had invested in this project would be laid to waste if Matthew could not "save" Monika.
Jacob spent fair amount of his time thinking about Doki Doki Literature Club. He had finished the game almost three days ago, and he was astounded by the amount of creativity and complexity that went into both the development of the game and its characters. He had begun to feel a special connection to all of the members of the literature club despite them not really being what people would consider real.
Jacob was an average high school student with a tendency to get slightly too involved in random occurrences. He had messy brown hair with a cowlick in the front. His eyes were also brown but much lighter than the normal shade. He was sixteen and of average height with a slightly slim build. He had almost no athletic ability, but even still Jacob liked to think of himself as someone strong who would always be there to protect the people he cared about.
His life wasn't anything spectacular. He went to school, and he suffered through the endless stress and boredom. His parents worked almost all the time, and Jacob was accustomed to spending many days by himself. He wasn't the best at anything to his knowledge though he could cook, clean, and do laundry as well as most other people. Not even in school did Jacob really stand out. Much like the protagonist of Doki Doki Literature Club, he was what you would call a "blank slate".
But that didn't really bother him... if he wasn't being honest.
Matthew realized that attempting to drag Monika out from his reality was pointless. What he needed was leverage. He had to coax her into exiting the game with him. In essence, he would have to enter the confines of the game himself in order to retrieve her.
To do so, he needed a suitable body in the game to implant his conscious in. Luckily, a body had been prepared for him from the moment he had gained possession of the game.
Author Note: We're gaining literary momentum! I was really excited while writing this chapter. On the downside, I admittedly have no idea what I will be doing for the rest of the story.
To my knowledge, I won't be retelling any of Doki Doki Literature Club's story from this point on. This, and the fact that I haven't decided what happens next, will most likely make it harder to write the rest of the story. I hope that I can keep writing at the same rate, but most likely it will take me longer to make more chapters. Sorry in advance (^_^;).