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[freshprints]

But I didn't —

Why did touching me damage my PRIMARY TARGET?

[hierophany]

Your equipped YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) has compromised the lower arm of your PRIMARY TARGET (★).
SUCCESS. You have inflicted damage upon your target.

(YOU GAINED 30 POINTS. CURRENT SCORE -30)

Your equipped YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) has compromised the upper arm of your PRIMARY TARGET (★).
SUCCESS. You have inflicted damage upon your target.

(YOU GAINED 30 POINTS. CURRENT SCORE 0)

Your equipped YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) has compromised the neck of your PRIMARY TARGET (★).
SUCCESS. You have inflicted damage upon your target.

(YOUR SCORE CANNOT RISE ABOVE 0)

Your equipped YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) has compromised the face of your PRIMARY TARGET (★).
SUCCESS. You have inflicted damage upon your target.

(YOUR SCORE CANNOT RISE ABOVE 0)

Your equipped YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) is approaching the frontal lobe of your PRIMARY TARGET (★).
SUCCESS. You have inflicted damage upon your target.

(YOUR SCORE CANNOT RISE ABOVE 0)

There are no exits.

ERROR: cheating device detected.

[freshprints]

I unequip MY FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS I AM. HE CHERISHED ME AND I HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT.

I reenable HIEROPHANT GREEN.

[hierophany]

Your equipped YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) is unequipped.

Your item YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) has been stolen by your PRIMARY TARGET (★).

Your PRIMARY TARGET'S item YOUR FRIEND, UNWORTHY AS YOU ARE. HE CHERISHED YOU AND YOU HAVE FAILED HIM. THIS IS ONLY RIGHT (★) has been destroyed.

Error: cheating device detected. scoring system disabled. your score will not be recorded.

STAND features reenabled.

You are in a room. It smells of charmy-brand cleaning products. You have no shoes and are bleeding. Your PRIMARY TARGET (★) is bleeding. Your score is [unknown]. As a consequence, you are [unknown].

Error: cheating device detected. sandbox mode enabled. success and failure states disabled.

[freshprints]

I open the MENU and review my MISSION OBJECTIVES.

Former, and current.

[hierophany]

Objective Log:

Follow Him ⭕
Receive TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP (★) ⭕
[unknown] ⭕
[unknown] ⭕
[unknown] ⭕
Eliminate PRIMARY TARGET (★) ❌
Die ❌

Current Objective:

Receive next quest from PRIMARY TARGET (★)

[freshprints]

That's why it didn't bother you. I wondered about that.

I attempt to communicate with my PRIMARY TARGET.

[hierophany]

You ask your PRIMARY TARGET (★) why he saved you.
Your PRIMARY TARGET (★) does not know.

Your PRIMARY TARGET (★) has no quest for you.
Your PRIMARY TARGET (★) is not interested in your score.
Your PRIMARY TARGET (★) does not know what a fucking inventory puzzle is how the fuck do you not know what an inventory puzzle is.

Your FINAL TARGET (★) enters the room and initiates an argument with your SECONDARY TARGET (★). Her name is SEIKO.

She has decided that you live here.
This is now YOUR ROOM.
She has decided that she is making a large meal tonight to celebrate.
She has decided that you need a bath.

You suspect that everyone has somehow forgotten about your UNTHINKABLE DEEDS.

Your PRIMARY TARGET (★) decided that you ought to be alive, against his better judgement, for no reason in particular.

The game is now unwinnable.

[freshprints]

The sequel to this game is unwinnable, too, isn't it? The one where your PRIMARY TARGET reveals he has a daughter.

I check my inventory for FEAR.

[hierophany]

You find the following FEAR:

Your actions appear to be entirely irrelevant. If you succeed, your PRIMARY TARGET (★) will believe that you ought to be alive. If you fail, your PRIMARY TARGET (★) will believe that you ought to be alive.
None of the choices you made in this game session mattered.
You no longer have control over the variable WORTHINESS.

I apologise. I realised a little too late that the concept of your choices having no meaning does not make a particularly interactive game.

[freshprints]

You'd be surprised. I found it immensely unpleasant for precisely that reason.

I hate my PRIMARY TARGET for putting me in a position where my actions have no effect over my own fate. And ultimately I love my PRIMARY TARGET for cheating, because it resulted in me being alive.

[hierophany]

They're like that, aren't they? Life-changing boys. Just going around deciding that nothing matters because they've decided that people ought to be alive and that's that. It's infuriating.

I neglected to mention a fear. You'll develop it after a few hours, once the situation sinks in a little more. You realise that if your actions have no connection to his insistence on making sure you live, that means he's going to do that for everyone. That he's going to try to save people, even when it's stupid. Going to give them chances to be better even when you know they're only going to throw them back in his face. And he doesn't even have the good sense to do it because he's stupid. If it was because he was stupid, maybe you could convince him not to. He knows he'll get hurt. He's just decided that matters less than saving people.

You develop a new fear. You're going to have to spend the rest of your life protecting this man.

[freshprints]

...

You did, didn't you.

And I'm going to.