"Don't joke around!" Okabe Rintaro unhesitatingly turned the doorknob and opened the door:
"If you don't explain, I'm leaving."
"There's no other way, meow." Felis-tan put her hands on her hips, looking helpless.
She padded across the floor in her cute cotton slippers to the floor-to-ceiling window, the pale light reflecting on her.
She gently turned around and said to Okabe Rintaro:
"Felis's family are the big landowners around here, meow."
With a 'dang' sound, the camera quickly zoomed out, revealing the incomparably prosperous and neatly arranged high-rise buildings behind her, spread out across the ground.
"Ah, now that you mention it, Akiba is…" Mayuri suddenly showed a look of realization.
Felis gently nodded: "Mm, that's how it is."
"Eh?" Hashida Itaru didn't understand at all: "What about Akiba?"
"It's Felis's real name," Mayuri explained.
"Her name is Akiba Rumiho."
Felis, or rather, Akiba Rumiho, smiled.
However, despite hearing such news, Hashida Itaru suddenly turned around and vigorously covered his ears.
"Ah ah ah ah—" he shouted, "I can't hear, I can't hear."
"Felis-tan's real name is Felis-tan!"
"Wuwuwu—"
Turning to look at Hashida Itaru, Okabe Rintaro couldn't help but retort: "It's pathetic to run away from reality."
[Since I can't just brush it off, I'll lay my cards on the table! I am the landlord!]
[I see, Akiba in Akiba Rumiho, so it's the Akiba in Akihabara. Then, does the landlord of Akihabara know about this?]
[Artistic creation, please do not substitute reality]
[So, Brooch is indeed the favored one, no matter how he acts up, Felis will always give in]
[Uh, uh, after all, she's already invited them to her home. Not explaining it and trying to play cute to get away with it, that's even more inappropriate, right?]
[I think you guys still need to see the despair of Tonz. The fantasy of the two-dimensional world is about to be shattered. A cute maid is actually a blood-sucking big landlord or something… it seems to have even more of a contrast?]
[The line 'This episode's line is not for you to say' was meant for this moment]
[Brooch is the least qualified to complain about this. Running away from reality is truly pathetic.]
[I'm reminded of a certain mad Scientist who runs away from reality, insists on his own theories, but repeatedly loses to Assistant.]
"By the way," Felis raised her index finger: "It was Felis who proposed introducing moe culture to Akihabara, meow."
"?!" Okabe Rintaro finally showed a shocked expression: "Huh? This was all you…"
Hashida Itaru, who had just finished running from reality, quickly added: "And she herself, as an angel, spreads moe culture at May Queen."
—"She's a god!"
"My eyes, which recognized such a god at a glance, are also divine!"
"But, but," Felis clasped her hands together: "I hope you can keep what I just said a secret, meow."
"I hope everyone can still treat me with Felis LOVE, just like before," she said.
Thus, Hashida Itaru's excitement reached its peak.
He clasped his hands tightly, clenched his fists, took a step forward, and shouted in response:
"I will! With my whole heart—"
"Thank you, meow meow~" Felis blinked.
"It shouldn't be 'meow meow,' right?!" Although the interaction between Hashida Itaru and Felis seemed enthusiastic, Okabe Rintaro didn't care about any of that.
He took a step forward: "More importantly, it's about the IBN5100!"
"Ah, that matter," Felis realized, and once again clasped her hands to her chest, saying in a syrupy tone:
"But before that, I have a simple request"
Just like her usual role-playing at the maid cafe, her overly sweet and delicate voice might drive most men to action.
But this certainly did not include Okabe Rintaro.
"You—!" He understood the meaning in her words: "Are you trying to make a deal?!"
Gently lowering her hands, no longer deliberately lowering her voice too much, Felis said softly: "It's not that complicated, meow."
"I just want to ask you to let me use D-mail once, meow."
Okabe Rintaro seemed to have his throat squeezed: "Uh—"
"It's a small matter!" Hashida Itaru, one step ahead of him, unhesitatingly agreed to the request: "Don't say once, as many times as—"
"Wait!" Okabe Rintaro couldn't take it anymore and turned his head to interrupt him:
"D-mail is absolutely confidential to outsiders."
"Then it's fine if Felis also becomes a Labmem, right?" Mayuri, behind him, poked her head out and suggested.
[All · are · traitors ·]
[Tonz, I'm not saying this to be mean, but if you keep this up, women will be the death of you.]
[Poor Tonz is being played like a fiddle by women.]
[As expected, as long as all those in the know are brought into the Laboratory as comrades, the absolute secret has not been exposed.]
[The dagger is revealed at the end of the scroll.]
[So Felis will still send a text message after all. Although she said before that she wouldn't look back, there are still things she regrets.]
"No, wait, hold on—" Okabe Rintaro frowned: "If we keep sending D-mail—"
Hashida Itaru heard his disapproving tone, raised an eyebrow, and clenched his fist: "You wanted to win the lotto with D-mail for your own selfish desires!"
"But Felis-tan can't?!"
"It's only once," Mayuri also said, siding with Felis.
"No, it's not like that…" Okabe Rintaro was attacked from both sides by his companions, momentarily speechless.
"…"
He couldn't help but ponder in his heart.
'But even if I give up now, there's no guarantee the IBN5100 will come back.'
He turned to look at Felis, who was quietly waiting for them to discuss the outcome.
'If I can just connect a little bit of the clues…'
"...I understand," he said.
"However, just as Mayuri said," Okabe Rintaro said in a deep voice: "Felis must become a Labmem."
"From today onwards, you are Labmem No.007! Akiba Rumi—"
"Ah ah, I can't hear, I can't hear." Okabe Rintaro's blurted out real name was once again loudly interrupted by the reality-avoiding Hashida Itaru… The decision had been made, and there was nothing left to dwell on.
Okabe Rintaro stood by the window, gazing at the scenery outside, waiting for Felis to compose the message she wanted to send.
The sound of 'da da da' echoed as she typed on her phone, and soon, Felis's movements stopped.
"It's ready, meow," she said.
Okabe Rintaro turned around and confirmed again: "Do you really only need to send it to 10 years ago?"
"That's right, meow." Felis nodded gently.
"The content of the email?"
Felis's expression changed slightly.
She turned her head and said: "That… is a secret, meow!"