Alfred excitedly slammed his bedroom door shut and flopped onto his bed. In his hand, he clutched the case for the new video game Kiku gave him.

Earlier that day Alfred had been bugging Kiku after their shared advanced algebra II class, Alfred's arm was slung over Kiku's shoulders. As Alfred rambled nonstop about a new horror movie coming out and that Kiku just had to go with him but like not because he was scared or anything. To get Alfred to shut up Kiku mentioned how he got a new game and that it was pretty fun. Alfred's interest was peaked and he began to beg, beg, and beg Kiku for the game. Kiku gave him a funny smile and asked, "Are you sure? It's not what you're expecting." By that point, Alfred wasn't listening and was nodding along instead, the information was soaring over his head. After getting the game from Kiku that was called あなたの愛が説明してくれるでしょう and Alfred had no clue what that meant. The two of them parted ways with Alfred practically bouncing with excitement, it'll probably be a new fun zombie game! And he'll force his older cousin Alasdair to play with him. And with that thought Alfred stuffed the game into his bag and headed to the library to get all his schoolwork done before he left for home. Fucking college assignments making him stay for hours at the library.

Alfred rolled onto his stomach looking at the case, it was in a black case with a red outline and with just the title. He rolled to the end of the bed and sat there on the edge, his little tv sitting before him with the video game console all ready to be queued up.

Alfred sat back on his bed, controller in one hand and his secret chip bag he kept under his bed. The title scene took a long time to load and Alfred for a second wondered if Kiku had played a prank on him and if this was a dud. The title screen loaded, an anime school background with cherry blossoms falling down, the name was in bold hot pink text. Alfred quickly hit the english language button option as if he hit the wrong one he'd have no idea to fix it in the settings.

The game's music was an upbeat classical soundtrack as Alfred customized his character and he was able to shockingly make it look very similar to himself.

Welcome to HetaWorld High! 3 Today is your first day of your last year and you are so excited to see your friends again! You didn't get to see them at all this summer >︿< Choose your next option!

a. Go inside the school b. Explore the campus c. Leave

Yay! (≧▽≦*) Walking inside you see the dilapidated walls that were your prison for the past three years.

Alfred sighed, realizing that this was most likely a visual novel dating game, he rarely played these because they were always the same. The same plot, characters practically, all of it was so predictable. Alas, Alfred had no other video game options for tonight, he could replay Resident Evil 5 but he was too scared to do that alone, he could play Minecraft or call of duty but he didn't feel like it. Accepting his fate Alfred continued to play the game, noting characters that were obvious archetypes.

Arthur the tsundere.

François the deredere.

Eduard the kuudere.

Tolys the tsunshun.

Ivan the yandere actually maybe he's a dorodere.

Alfred also found it a bit odd, there aren't many visual novel dating games wherre you can be a guy and the love interestes were guys. Guess yaoi has finally infiltrated visual novels with that thought Alfred shrugged it off. The game was interesting to Alfred and he liked that the characters had some different dere types with a tsunshun, deredere, and dorodere, usually it's just the same yandere, kuudere, tsundere, an actual normal human, asshole rich guy. Alfred also found he enjoyed the two side character best friends that would help the main character with their love interest and mini games.

A dating simulator that had a protagonist who actually had friends outside of the love interests. The two best friends are Feliks and Matthew. Feliks was the overly flamboyant gay friend which Alfred found hilarious because this is a gay game, and Matthew who seemed to be the only straight character.

Most scenes included Matthew right beside the main character, always smiling and cheering Alfred on.

"Don't listen to what Arthur said! He's such an asshole to you, I don't know why you like him."
"You shouldn't hang out with Ivan…he seems dangerous. I want you to be safe!"

"Tolys will be fine, won't you come over, you never hang out with me anymore!"

Alfred rolled his eyes at Matthew's outburst, "Dude I'm never given the option to hang out with you." Right after saying that Alfred felt a tad bit crazy, it's 4 am on a Friday night, he's playing a dating sim instead of partying or even better sleeping. He should probably turn off the game and sleep but it's not like he had any plans for Saturday, he didn't really have any friends here, well friends you hang out with outside of class, and his roommate completely ignored him. Blinking a few times, Alfred refocused on the game.

"Well then how about you come over."

a. Go to Matthew's house b. Go to Tolys c. Go to Arthur (89% path completion)

It almost seemed like this side character best friend was responding to something Alfred actually said in real life, but that must be a weird fluke. Alfred clicked a and the screen faded to show Matthew standing in front of a simple single story home that had a maple leaf carved into the front door.

Wowie `(**)′ You chose to go to Matthew's house! Do you know what you're doing? (_) If you go in you lose 30% of progress for Arthur, François, Eduard, Tolys, and Ivans paths!

Are you going to continue?

a. Yes b. NO!

Alfred was really surprised by this turn of events, wouldn't this help him with his progress since this is obviously a secret path which should be beneficial but it wasn't… He paused the game and pulled up the love interests profiles to see the path progresses, Arthur's was the most completed with 89% while Eduard's was only 13%. Would Eduard's path go in the negative points? Really intrigued Alfred clicked continued.

The screen once again turned to black which never happened when interacting with the other characters, with others it would fade to pink hearts and have a little fun fact about the character. The scene loaded and showed Matthew's bedroom, a maple leaf bedspread, multiple photos of the main character and Matthew. The protagonists eerily perfect resemblance to Alfred sent little chills down his back, the programers really overdid themselves with this game, programming it so the very customized character would be in those little picture frames.

"I'm so happy you're here Alfred, I've really missed hanging out with you." Matthew's character pouted.

a. "I'm sorry about that, I've just been so busy dude." b. "We just hung out last week!" c. "Dude, you're acting pretty clingy right now."

Clicking option b Alfred slipped off the bed to lean against it on the floor, he realized he had been leaning closer to the tv subconsciously and realized it was beginning to hurt his neck.

"No we didn't. I really fucking hate it when you lie to me. Won't you please stop lying to me Alfred, I'll always be on your side no matter what, don't you know that? I think you should get some sleep now, it's late."

a. "Ok yeah I'll go to sleep." b. "No, I want to stay up with you."

The game began to load to another screen when he hit the option b again and when it loaded again they were both in the bed it seemed, Matthew laying on his back but his eyes looking at the protagonist. In a way Alfred felt like the character was actually staring at him the player.

"Can I tell you something?"

a. "Of course." b. "No."c. Stay Silent

"Thanks for choosing to say yes. Do you remember? I doubt you do, but I think I should tell you. I know we haven't been hanging out too long, I mean you actually just met me today. But I have known you for so long. I wish you could remember. I miss you a lot. We used to talk a lot more but then we died. Can't you try to remember? I think you can if you really think hard."
a. "You're scaring me." b. "Is this a joke? It's not funny." c. "Stay silent d. Type your own response

Seeing the type your response made Alfred raise an eyebrow before he slowly began picking the letters with his video game console.

"Will you tell me what you're talking about."
Matthew's character rolled toward Alfred's character
. And in real life Alfred gasped, suddenly the graphics were so realistic, no longer that dorky anime style, but a whole 3D style, Alfred if he wanted to could count Matthew's freckles.

"We had a life before this one, Alfred Jones. A life where we were nations, we fought wars, we had lovers, we had arguments, but we always had each other, but then something happened… I can't really remember, humans turned on us all, began to run experiments, we all died repeatedly again and again. Eventually though the scientists died and we were forgotten, some nations faded away though due to their country being absorbed by another, or the citizens dying. Because while we were experimented on, plagues and conflicts ravaged the world while we were all underground sick and clueless. I can't remember how but a few of us managed to escape our confinements. You really don't remember? Well makes sense, you couldn't deal with what the people did to us, you begged Arthur to use his magic on you and it erased your memories, you went to go live as a normal person in society that had fixed itself. Kiku came along with you as well to watch over you. I suppose he finally thought it was time for you to know all this by giving you the game. Since I'm just dumping all this knowledge on you I suspect it'll break the spell. Please come find me."

[ Author's Note - あなたの愛が説明してくれるでしょう means your love will explain I used google translate for that so the accuracy may not be 100%. This also went off the rails and I'm not completely satisfied with the ending in the future I'll probably change it but I'm not going to today...Also I used this wiki for different dere types.]