He's cute. That eye ring is so cool!
So Cloaca-chan notices that Nageki is hanging in the library by himself, as always, but this time he is reading the same book she has been assigned. Trying to make smalltalk, she asks him about it.
SAFE ETHICAL VIEWPOINTS ARE A GOOD THING, NAGEKI. LET'S EMBRACE SAFE ETHICAL VIEWPOINTS.
Ha, you think I'm working here because I like books? Anyway, given my currently strong feelings about SAFE ETHICAL VIEWPOINTS, I can't really pick the parody of an incest-themed comedy, so I go with Night on the Galactic Railroad instead.
Geeze, is there any pleasing this bird?
Ok, either he's being mildly tsundere or he's a hipster. I don't say this often, but lord I'm hoping for tsundere.
He's cute. That eye ring is so cool!
Summer festival comes around and I try to invite Nageki to come with me, but Cloaca-chan realizes she doesn't have his phone number or address.
Geeze, even the game is slagging off on the guy now. I'd feel sorry for him if I wasn't still concerned about his potential for murder.
Man, just thinking about the guy makes Cloaca-chan so depressed that she has to drown her sorrows in carbs and pass out instead of partying.
I hope he isn't planning on making her so depressed that she commits suicide.
Because, I mean, the clues were there for the murder at the very beginning with the Fat Bird route and I ignored them.
Nageki, I got my eye on you. You better cheer up.
Anyway, at the end of summer break, Cloaca decides to go study in the library because I HAVE TO LIVE AT THE LIBRARY TO SEE THIS ASSHOLE
When Cloaca gets there, a bunch of third years are studying and Nageki is hiding in a corner instead of reading at a table like usual. Cloaca asks about it and he says he doesn't like being around other birds because they just ignore him.
As amusing as the second one is, I decide to avoid any mention of mental illness in hopes of not ending up dead and ask him if he is being bullied. He doesn't answer and the scene just ends there, awkwardly. Weird.
Please don't murder me.
During the school festival I library library with the library. The door is open when I get there.
Girl, run now and don't look back.
What's under his cheek feathers? Is that bird herpes? Be careful.
Either she's been pretty insensitive to a depressed dove or provoking a killer. Not exactly showering herself with glory whichever it turns out to be. Anyway, he asks if there's something wrong with that.
Wait, has the game neglected to let me know that he is throwing things around and making loud, mysterious sounds?
On one hand, it was very sweet of Cloaca-chan to go out of her way to get a treat for the depressed guy who is always by himself. On the other hand, her purchase is directly funding voyeurism. Either way, Nageki thanks her and actually looks happy.
Emboldened by this display of a whole new emotion, Cloaca-chan invites him to go with her and walk around the rest of the culture festival.
We're doomed.
I love how intensely paranoid this game has made you.
Luckily, we survive that encounter with nothing more than an aggressive moping and he kicks Cloaca-chan out of the library.
I am getting sick of the library, ya'll. So in October, I leave my textbook in the library and have to go get a key to unlock it. I get in and find whatever this is:
And, of course, Nageki. After making appropriate noises about how terrible it is that he was locked in, I invite him to walk home with me and he immediately refuses.
No, obviously not everything is ok. I'm scared that prying will lead to a horrible death, but I am also scared that being insufficiently involved with birds will lead to human extinction. What is this game doing to me?
So with that in mind, Cloaca-chan mentions that Nageki always gets mad when she suggests that he leave the library.
Well, it's good to know that he's not just being a jerk, I guess.
But he's not going to tell me about it! Right now this feels less like a dating game and more like a busybody sim. Tell me your secretsssssssss Nagekiiiiiiii
So the game informs me that I'm in danger of failing my finals WHICH IS BULLSHIT MY WISDOM SCORE IS FUCKING AWESOME and so I better library library in the library with the library.
Library.
Oh ho! Is he finally warming up to me? IS THE GAME FINALLY BEHAVING LIKE A DATING GAME?
Yessssssssssss speak words at me that we may communicate like two gentlepeople who harbor no murderous thoughts towards one another. This is pleasing.
And I was very amused when you kept calling me Miss Cloaca.
New theory: Fat Bird's drugging Cloaca-chan and Nageki is a hallucination.
(BTW, you have now seen 200 screenshots from a pigeon dating game.)
Kind-hearted Cloaca-chan offers to intervene and talk to his teacher to help him, but he stops her mid-sentence. He then explains that he's not being bullied.
Go on.
Ok, now I am going with "incomplete Fat Bird experiment."
Say it! Spew forth your juicy back story!
GODDAMNIT! I JUST GOT PLOTBLOCKED BY THE TEACHER!
Only two hundred? Pills here!
edit: Going with "I think I'm dead".
I found this through a random link on my news feed. I have no idea what this site is about, but after 200 screenshots, I had to register!
This is priceless.
When a murderous, cannibalistic fat ninja partridge is potentially around every corner with a stack of bloody scissors and / or a fucking cleaver, paranoia is probably justified. Oh, and let's not forget the Hawk secret society (left AND right wing!) with more ninjas. Somebirdie is always after our Miss Cloaca.
On one hand, we are getting pretty close to the dreaded Valentine's Day. But on the other hand, I am feeling pretty good about our chances with Nageki at this point. He's not been particularly menacing lately. I think we might be headed for a good end here.
Cloaca-chan is not as optimistic as I am.
Shit, maybe she's right, he wants to take this outside! Still, anything to get out of the library.
Aw shit, it's worse than I feared. He's not a hipster or a tsundere, he's a mime.
Nageki, I don't think it's going to work out between us.
So now we've gone to dating mime bookworm birds with memory problems?
Why is this game so good?
Damnit, game, it's no fun if you immediately and explicitly rule out my incredibly stupid speculation.
You know, if you have to be doomed to be confined to a single room of the school, the library is a pretty decent choice. At least you have a lot of books to go through.
But now the sad music starts playing.
Cloaca Mahoney is the Ghost Botherer.
Can't Stop. Must make it to 300 screen shots.
These birds can do anything. Its so inspirational!
Oh shit
That last picture
He's becoming transparent!
Credit where credit is due, that's a nice use of transparency and I like that they kept it subtle.
I'm really not going to ever get through this game without someone's death being involved, am I?
Ok, that line is kinda sad.
In a pigeon dating game.
This game fills me with all sorts of unexpected emotions.
NO NOT THOSE ONES.
No regrets? Really? After being trapped in a school library with no memory and ignored by everyone for years? Really?
Whew! Saved from almost taking this seriously by my own ridiculous name!
Double whew! Saved from serious awkwardness by his apparent last-minute realization of anatomical limitations!
Sad bird is sad.
...
...
GAME I AM WARNING YOU, THIS BETTER NOT BE THE PART WHERE HE DECIDES TO TAKE ME DOWN WITH HIM
*Popcorn*
This will be grand!
Cloaca-chan desperately pleads with him, saying she'll talk to him enough to make up for everyone else and that maybe if he remembers more feelings that he'll eventually be able to leave the library.
I... can't tell if he thinks that's a good thing or not.
So now he is 'graduating' because I wouldn't shut up around him.
She tries to hug Nageki but she can barely feel him and he is cold.
His feets are failing him now :(
STOP BEING SAD, PIGEON DATING GAME
I came here to make fun of you, not to mourn you!
I hope this is our gateway back into wacky conspiracies and viruses.
Yeah, live with that knowledge the rest of your life, Cloaca-chan. Sweet dreams!
She objects, saying that she has so many more things she wants to tell him.
That's ghost for "STFU"
SPIT IT OUT ALREADY
F5 F5 F5
Awwww....
....
wait
I just destroyed someone with the power of love
THIS GAME
I SWEAR
But hey, the human race survived and the Fat Bird didn't show up to murderize me, so I guess I am getting better?
I destroyed someone with the power of love.
You're thinking about it wrong! You SET SOMEONE FREE with the power of love!
WHAT WAS THE FUCKING SECRET FUCK