Hiromi wakes up one morning after partying a little too hard with the crew after a gig. Squinting into the morning light, all she sees, centered in her vision is:

WELCOME GAMER
To
DOKI DOKI LOVE CURE,
The greatest Otome based system, EVER!

Blinking away the notification in her HUD, she staggers past her chooms and into the bathroom. Looking at the mirror, she starts to see scrolling notifications in the corner of her vision.

System initializing.
Non-Isekai character start chosen.
Character customization disabled.
Mapping routes.
Love routes mapped.

Blinking, Hiromi mumbled under her breath, "Oh man, what did Motoko do to my OS last night? Shit! What did she see when she was rooting around in there?"

STORY DLC UNLOCKED: Chrome Lilies

Hiromi blanches. "Ok, that's not fucking funny. That poem was encrypted and saved offsite, nobody should be able to read that without me knowing. I swear to god I will do terrible things to her if she breathes a word about that."

Challenge mode enabled!
ROUTE CHOSEN: Kodokuna Kōkaku Kidōtai
LOVE ROUTE LOCKED!
COMPILING ROUTE POINTS

Tsundere: 39
Dandere: 7
Yandere: 23
Kuudere: 19

Red faced with a heady blend of embarrassment and rage, Hiromi stomps out of the bathroom and throws the nearest pillow into Motoko's face. Motoko squawks and falls off the couch, still somehow landing on her feet, the little cheater.

"Motoko! What the hell did you do to my OS? Why is there some Otome System loaded in my HUD? I don't care how drunk we were last night, you don't go rummaging around a girl's hardware like that!" She yelled, loud enough that the rest of the crew started complaining and waking up.

Motoko blinks, "But I didn't do anything to your OS last night? We were all pretty drunk by the time they kicked us out of Lizzie's, are you sure you didn't drunk download something from the app store?"

Hiromi glared at Motoko and pointed an imperious finger "Of course I'm sure! I already checked my installed apps and ran a system diagnostic, it's completely clean! The only one who could load something like that would be you, you little gremlin. And what the hell kind of love route is called 'The Lonely Ghost in the Shell'?"

Motoko goes pale, mouthing the words.

A cheery jingle plays, and a little puff of cartoon hearts appears around Motoko's head.
Tsun-point granted.

Suddenly a targeting overlay appears in Hiromi's vision. Motoko is highlighted in a soft lavender.
TARGET STATUS: Embarrassed, Confused
Current relationship status: Best Friends.

YOUR INTERACTION HAS UNCOVERED A PLOT THREAD.
Who is The Major? Will you unravel the mystery?

Hiromi's eyes narrowed. "That route name means something to you. You know something about this. And NOW the stupid system is telling me I need to unravel the mystery of The Major. Who the hell is The Major?"

"Another thing! Why do I have forty Tsundere points? What kind of gonk-ass weeb uses japanese terms from fifty years ago? I had to look up what it meant!"

Horrified realization grips our purple haired protagonist. She knows. She KNOWS. Also apparently Hiromi was secretly into her in that way, huh. has ceased to brrrrrrr, please feed XP.

Hiromi watched as Motoko's soul tried to leave her body, trying to flee underground where nobody could see her shame. Then the HUD updated.

TARGET STATUS: Mortified, SHE KNOWS.
TARGET IS NOW AWARE OF DLC THEME
Current relationship status: Best friends, benefits are on the negotiating table.

has crashed. Please tune in next week for the next embarassing installment of DOKI DOKI LOVE CURE!