Part 76: Nenji Ogata 7
Chapter 76: Nenji Ogata 7
Back to Nenji!
Music: The Plot Thickens (Rikako Watanabe)

Maybe youve got a point. I should slow down and think a little

I finally found this damn key
Whats gonna happen to Minami if I snitch on her?
Consider Natsuno Minami

(Minamis got the key
But if I let Okino know, Id be throwin her under the bus.
That Izumi guy
He said hed handle it. Can I even trust him?)
Consider League of Darkness

(So that guy Izumi
Hes Juro Kurabe from another world
? If thats really true
That League of Darkness ladys gotta be a Fuyusaka from another world. When I was a kid, she did somethin to my key
I remember now. She said something about the Sentinels
Probably talkin about that robot I saw in the future ruins
)
Consider Key

(So the one who has the key
Theyre the one callin these monsters out. Even if they dont want to. Never thought Minami would have it
)

I didnt
I didnt cross a line, did I?

Could you not ignore me?
Use The Attack on Tomi Kisaragi

If you knew the world was gonna end in a couple minutes
How would you spend em?

Well
I cant really get anywhere in a few minutes
Well, too bad, you're not going to spend them with Nenji, because he's about to ditch you.

Okay, the first trains gonna be Fuyusaka and
Iori, your place isnt this way, right? Where you going?
Ive just got a thing over in Tsutsuji
Tomis distracted, lets go bug Juro.

Huh. Thats weird. Seems like plain old Kurabe again

Someone was just looking for you

Whos this from?

Izumi, I think he said
?
Consider Izumis Message

(Tsutsuji-Bound Semi-Express departing at 5:12, first car
Who is this guy
? Whats his angle? Lessee, the 5:12
Thats the third train. The one Kisaragi gets on. And the first car
)

I have to go
Ryoko gets on her train.

Im gonna go
Sorry, Tomi, but we gotta jet.

You even listenin?

(Geez
If I get on the train now, is it even gonna change anything
?)
Well, lets follow Megumi, I guess
Music: Ennui Vibes (Yoshimi Kudo)

Now youre messin with me too? Youre from Minamis class
You another of Okinos goons?

Okino? I dont know who that is.

Then why are you here?

I was told to come here so I could save Nenji Ogata.

Youre here to save me
?

But Nenji Ogatas right here. So
why are you appearing on this screen?

Thats like
a version of me inside my own head.

So
I just need to pull this thing off your head?

Hey, hey, dont do that! They said if it gets forced off, I might never wake up again. Geez
Call the police, I guess?

My contact wants to keep this discreet.

Okay, then call your contact! Get them to do something!

Well, hes a cat, so
His options are limited.
Ha!

Hes a what?

Hes a talking cat whos here to save the world.

What the shit are you talking about? Look, you see any kinda
I dunno, a power button?

None here.

Well, what *do* you see?

A button that says reinitialize.

Okay, dont touch that. Probably dumps me back at the station.

Something here about a restriction?

Maybe thats it. You think you can turn that restriction off?

I can try.

Hows it lookin?

Hold on, still checking

Hey, you talked about saving the world
You mean from the kaiju, right?

Right.

So
all that stuff I saw on the train
It really could happen.

If you could fight back
Would you?

Hell yeah I would.

Then
Music: The Tower of Knowledge (Hitoshi Sakimoto)

Really? Okay
now were gettin somewhere
Now try pressin that reinitialize thing.
And Nenji is now locked until we do Destruction Wave 2-5. Currently, our plot blocks are:
Nenji and Natsuno: Destruction 2-5
Shu and Tomi: Destruction 2-10
Ei and Miura: Natsuno, A Missing Memory
Megumi: Juro Kurabe, Juro Kurabe
Juro: Yuki, A Conscious Criminal
Hijiyama: 80% story progress for 8 protagonists
Gouto: 80% story progress for 12 protagonists
And that just leaves Yuki, Iori, and Ryoko available at the moment.
We make two minor changes to the board here. First, we link Megumi and Nenji because she is all-but-stated to have shot him in that last scene. To facilitate that, we move Kiriko Douji slightly because it was in the way in its original position.
And heres the full board.