Summary
: “Spending time with me has only brought you pain…”
: This time, let’s pick the other option.
: “You’re… just trying to comfort me because I lost, right…? P-please stop… I’m the Phony Princess… I mean, I lied to everyone… and yet, you want to be by my side…?”
: “What do you mean by that…?”
: I kinda feel like this is going against the entire idea of what her confidant is. I mean, the whole point is she’s been kind of bombarded by all these people who were pretending to be interested in shogi to try and date her, and that’s pretty much what we’re doing.
: “…Really? You really feel that way? If that’s what you truly want, I… I will become a woman worthy of you.”
: Hifumi’s confidant is also really lazy in that it has the fewest amount of differences between the dating route and the non-dating route. It makes me wonder if at some point in development, the writers did not intend for Hifumi to be dateable and then had to shoehorn it in at the last minute due to Hashino or corporate or something.
: Keep in mind that in the base game, this scene just kinda ended here.
: “I-I don’t know what I’m saying… I forfeit this match.. A-Allow me to start over. I’ve been… thinking, this entire time. About how things would’ve been if I’d kept playing shogi according to my mother’s strategy…”
: “I could have enjoyed a transient, empty success. But when I looked two, three moves ahead… I saw myself in incessant hell, playing a purgatorial, Pyrrhic shogi, unable to ever win or lose. I probably would’ve ended up hating Shogi. Perhaps even given up on life.”
: “But I had you… and through our mutual revelations, I was saved. So thank you.”
: “Wait.. what!? So by the first move, you were already…? I-I can’t believe I missed it… but what indescribable joy. I will work hard to become a woman worthy of you.”
: Her Rank 10 is even lazier - it’s word for word identical to the one we already saw, it just takes place in Joker’s room rather than in the church.
: “Being a hero must keep you busy trying to help everyone, huh? Well… I no longer have a ban on dating… so for the time being, please let me have you all to myself…”
