"Brainwashing, what is it?" The little animal beside them walked closer and asked.
"This…"
After checking Okabe Rintaro for any signs of brainwashing, Suzuha finally realized there was a child nearby.
Fortunately, Okabe Rintaro put two fingers on his face, grinned, and said:
"This, let me, Hououin Kyouma, tell you."
"Ugh…" However, as soon as he spoke, Brown's daughter took a few steps back and hid behind Suzuha.
"Xiao Tao seems very afraid of Okabe Rintaro," Suzuha chuckled.
"…" Okabe Rintaro sighed, gave up on his chuunibyou act, raised his head, and said to Suzuha:
"I have something I want to ask you."
Suzuha: "…"
[LOL, Suzuha immediately had a stress reaction]
[So there really are people in the future who were brainwashed with chips?]
[It couldn't be Assistant, could it? Thinking about Suzuha's strange attitude towards Assistant, and that phrase 'not yet'…]
[The little animal finally has a name]
[Wuwuwu, I also want Suzuha to ride on me]
[Presumptuous!]
[So this is how they check for implanted chips? That's amazing!]
[Okabe Rintaro wanted to be depressed, but Suzuha immediately brought him back to reality]
[Do you understand what the true reaction of someone who returned from the land of despair is?]
"Discharge? Was that the earthquake just now? It happened once just now."
Suzuha and Okabe Rintaro sat on chairs, while the little animal played by spinning Suzuha's bicycle.
"It should have happened once about ten minutes ago," Okabe Rintaro wanted to get an affirmative response from Suzuha.
But Suzuha shook her head: "I didn't feel that one."
"What about Xiao Tao?"
"No," the little animal shook her head.
"…" Okabe Rintaro couldn't help but fall into thought.
Just then, Makise Kurisu's irritated voice came from upstairs.
"You're a complete pervert!"
"I'm not a pervert!" Hashida Itaru retorted righteously: "I'm a perverted gentleman!"
The incredibly clear sounds of their argument came from upstairs.
Suzuha chuckled and said: "See, I told you you could hear it."
"Guh uh…" Okabe Rintaro's expression turned unpleasant: "I didn't expect it to be so clear…"
If the sound was so clear, that meant… "?! Could it be… even the Time Machine's matters?!" He suddenly turned his head and asked.
Suzuha nodded readily.
"Hmm, you guys are amazing."
"…" Okabe Rintaro took a deep breath and said with a trembling voice: "I'll give you a piece of advice—"
Before he could finish his advice, Suzuha raised her hand, signaling:
"I know, I won't tell anyone."
"Ah, are you perhaps troubled by the Time Machine?"
"Then, how about asking John Titor?" she suggested.
[C-L-E-A-R-L-Y]
[It really is clear]
[What do you call loud conspiring?]
[So Tonz is talking big again?]
[John Titor suggests you ask John Titor]
[So why do you all immediately assume Suzuha is Titor? Do you all believe Cowboy Hao's speculation that much?]
[With all this evidence, if she's not Titor, I'll eat Assistant's black stockings]
[The reward has been said, what about the punishment?]
[The punishment is to eat Tonz's extra-extra-extra-large underwear too]
"Speaking of which, Titor mentioned."
"If you go back to the past and change the past…"
A flowing background music began, and the scene of John Titor explaining his theory replayed.
Okabe Rintaro recalled what Titor had said earlier.
"The value called 'worldline divergence' will change, and the world will jump to another worldline."
"When moving, the memories of the worldline before the change will be deleted, and new memories of the new worldline will be reconstructed."
The flashback returned to just now.
"Because of the D-mail, Rukako jumped from a worldline where she never bought lotto 6 to a worldline where she did."
"The worldline changed, and the past facts also changed."
"This is not the world where a D-mail was sent to check if lotto 6 had won."
"It's not because Mayuri and the others forgot; it's because the experiment never took place in this world."
Pondering, Okabe Rintaro reached a conclusion.
But even so, he still had a point of confusion.
That was.
"Why am I the only one who still retains those memories?"
Standing in place, hands in his white coat, Okabe Rintaro fell into deep thought.
"Beep beep—" Suddenly, the sound of a car horn came from nearby.
Suzuha was startled for a moment, then quickly reacted.
"Oh no." She ran into the shop, but before going in, she paused for a moment and instructed the little animal beside her:
"Xiao Tao, no matter what they ask you, don't say I was slacking off."
The little animal stood up, didn't respond, but instead asked:
"Can you take me for a bike ride next time?"
"I'll take you, I'll take you—"
Soon, her voice and figure disappeared into the shop.
But the next moment, she suddenly peeked out again.
"Okabe Rintaro."
"I'll support you," she said.
[No, if this continues, I'm really going to defect]
[Suzuha is really good, right?]
[Wuwuwu, I'm in love]
[Speaking of which, the title of this episode is also worldline Divergence, huh]
[You just noticed?]
[The little animal is quite a character, she knows how to manipulate people at such a young age]
[Future wife material]
[? Come, put out your hands, take these silver handcuffs]
"Hmm hmm hmm hmm~" Brown hummed a tune as he drove, seemingly in a good mood.
Unfortunately, this good mood was quickly broken.
Because he saw Okabe Rintaro standing next to his daughter in front of him.
"Huh? This scoundrel!" The gnashing of teeth and the unpressed accelerator turned into a brake.
"Dad—"
Without responding to his daughter's greeting, as soon as he opened the car door and got out, Brown angrily yelled at Okabe Rintaro:
"Okabe! What did you do to my daughter?!"
"Huh? Wait a minute, I didn't do anything…" Okabe Rintaro was bewildered.
"Shut up!" Brown had no intention of listening to his explanation, and directly exaggerated his robust physique towards him: "Being alone with my adorable daughter, can a beast like you control yourself?"
"How do you see other people?!" Okabe Rintaro explained:
"Ultimately, it wasn't being alone at all; Suzuha was still here until just now!"