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chapter 8: Incoherence

We told Sayori that Monika gave the 'aroma' to Natsuki who then made cupcakes with it. Then there's no way this lie will work on Natsuki because...wait maybe...

Ethan: "Just to be sure...You actually didn't give anything to Natsuki on Monday for her cupcakes, right?"

Monika: "Uh...yeah...All my memories are really hazy...but I don't remember ever giving anything to Natsuki for her cupcakes."

As I feared...

Monika's right arm lies at her side while her left arm is holding her right elbow. Her eyebrows are down and I can feel regret in her voice.

Monika: "Ahaha...If I thought more carefully about the situation, I could have..."

I interrupt her:

Ethan: "You did the best we could have done. You only had one minute to think of a believable lie. And the person who was in front of you was Sayori. It's totally normal not to think of the bigger picture in that situation."

Monika: "Um...yeah but...Anyway, it's not like we can go back to the past, can we?"

Of course...Hold on, didn't she rollback time when the main character saw Yuri in the hallway in DDLC? Or was it the game system?

Ethan: "Are you sure about that? When I played the game, I think you were able to rollback events..."

Monika: "Really? Hm...I didn't tell you yet but I can actually open a python console. Maybe there's a command I can execute?"

In DDLC, she used the command console to delete the other characters. It must be the same here. Thus, there should be some kind of functions to save, load and rollback.

Ethan: "Try to find something like 'rollback', 'previous', 'load'...Scratch that, can you save the game or load it or something?"

Monika: "Let's see...Oh you're right! There are some functions about saving and loading! There are ' renpy . save()' and ' renpy . load()'."

If it's really possible to save and load then all our problems will be solved!

[Player]: "Great! Can you try executing the line 'renpy . save('day_2_morning')'?"

Monika: "Let's see..."RuntimeError: Access Denied". It's the same error that happened when I tried to modify the club members' files!"

Ethan: "Gods damn it. I figured it would have been too easy otherwise. Can you see the list of saves?"

Monika: "Yes but it's empty..."

Ethan: "Well, it looks like saving and loading is out of the question then. Let's try one last thing. There should be something like 'renpy . rollback()'..."

Monika: "I can see it but... how does it work? You know, I'm very new at programming. I only discovered yesterday I could execute python commands.."

Ethan: "Well, I know programming, Python and even Ren'Py so I could teach you but...we don't have much time left before Natsuki and Yuri arrive, do we?"

Monika: "Yeah, they should arrive in less than 8 minutes. Sayori already is coming out of the drug store with medicines. I guess she will join us in about 20 minutes."

I sigh. We don't have enough time to experiment more with Renpy and python functions...No, at least, I still want to give one more try to the rollback function.

Ethan: "Let's try one last thing. Execute the line 'help('renpy . rollback')' and tell me what you see."

Monika: "I see 'renpy . rollback(force=False, checkpoints=1, defer=False,greedy=True,label=None,abnormal=True)', then under it, each argument is explained. I don't really understand any of them..."