The scene shifted, becoming the male protagonist's setting.
Furukawa Hirozawa woke up in a small room.
To be precise, it was the male protagonist named Iwa Sejian.
Today was the wedding day of his childhood sweetheart, Yoshida Li, who grew up with him and was a very good friend, and Tada Tetsuya.
Iwa Sejian had overslept, so he quickly got up, hurriedly put on his suit, and rushed forward to attend the wedding of his childhood sweetheart, Yoshida Li.
Midway, he even stumbled into a marathon.
After much effort, he finally arrived at the venue, barely making it to Li's wedding.
At the wedding, there were many familiar friends.
Since Li was getting married today, her friends naturally gathered together.
From conversations with the guests at the scene, Furukawa Hirozawa roughly understood the relationships:
Firstly, Iwa Sejian, Yoshida Li, Aoku Elimei, Tsurumi Shang, and Enokido Ganxiong, these five individuals, were very close and intimate friends, having known each other since elementary school and maintaining their friendship until now.
Yoshida Li was today's bride, and the groom, Tada Tetsuya, was their high school teacher.
Tsurumi Shang liked Aoku Elimei very much, but so far, he had always been rejected.
...
After entering the church, Iwa Sejian couldn't help but sigh inwardly:
"Li, wearing a wedding dress today, is truly beautiful."
"What a pity, the groom isn't me."
"Why is it that Li, whom I love so much, ended up walking towards another man?"
It could be seen that Iwa Sejian deeply loved Yoshida Li.
Playing to this point, Furukawa felt particularly unpleasant, thinking sourly:
What's the meaning of this? Are you only regretting it when the girl you like is about to marry someone else?
Or, did the male protagonist actually try hard but was rejected by the female protagonist, and today he has no choice but to watch the woman he loves marry someone else?
Furukawa Hirozawa felt quite uncomfortable.
What's going on with Pokeni?
Is it a bad ending from the very beginning?
Letting the girl he likes become someone else's bride, what kind of cuckolding behavior is this?
Pokeni wouldn't follow in the footsteps of I Society, would it?
...
As soon as Iwa Sejian entered the church, the bride, Yoshida Li, immediately noticed him, lifted her skirt, and ran up to him to show off.
"How is it?"
Li in the scene was truly beautiful.
Like a blooming lily.
She tilted her head, smiling playfully.
However, seeing such a beautiful Li, Iwa Sejian couldn't be happy at all.
Because today, Li was someone else's bride.
"Could it be that I'm too beautiful, and you're stunned?" Yoshida Li revealed a playful smile, took two steps forward, and poked the male protagonist with her finger.
"The wedding dress is super beautiful, that's for sure, but as for the crucial bride…" Iwa Sejian rubbed his nose, mocking her as usual.
"Damn it!"
Yoshida Li hit him hard on the chest, "You always say that, you'll never get married in this life."
"Don't bother yourself with me."
Iwa Sejian continued to bicker.
The male protagonist felt bitter inside, and Furukawa Hirozawa also felt bitter.
Because for some reason, these simple few lines of dialogue, seemingly bickering, yet with so much affection in their eyes, inexplicably reminded him of his own childhood sweetheart from high school.
Once upon a Time...
He also had similar moments.
Sometimes, during the student Time, the more you liked a girl, the more you wanted to tease her, not really intending to make things difficult for her.
It was just a way to get her attention.
And, naively thinking that as long as they could keep attacking each other and flirting like this, then...
One day they would be together.
It wasn't until she became someone else's bride that Furukawa Hirozawa regretted it immensely.
...
Did the production team of "proposal daisakusen" read my diary?
Furukawa Hirozawa felt a surge of doubt, otherwise, these scenes would be too real, wouldn't they?
He felt as if those memories he had deliberately forgotten in the past were now resurfacing, attacking him.
"Oh, by the way, the speech, I'll leave it to you."
Yoshida Li said with a smile.
The male protagonist spread his palms, pretending to be calm, "Then I have to make it clear first, I'm charging for it."
"Stingy Mr. River!" Li pouted and complained.
"You're the one, stingy Miss Moon."
Iwa Sejian gave her a thumbs up, "Yay!"
Yoshida Li was amused and helplessly followed suit with a thumbs up, "Yay."
These should be their exclusive gestures and pet names.
...
At the invitation of the female protagonist, Iwa Sejian stood beside the wedding stage and began to give a speech to the newlyweds.
"Teacher Duoda, and Li."
The male protagonist turned his body towards the two newlyweds on the wedding stage, bowed deeply, and blessed them, "Congratulations on your marriage."
After speaking, he faced the guests again and continued his speech:
"Li and I have been classmates since elementary school."
"We basically spent our entire student Time together."
"Yesterday, I flipped through the commemorative album from our elementary school graduation."
"In the future dreams section, Li wrote that she wanted to become a lovely bride."
Uh...
Hearing this part of the speech, Furukawa Hirozawa's heart skipped a beat.
The image of a lovely girl appeared in his mind.
However, because too much Time had passed, he couldn't quite recall the exact appearance of that face, only a rough outline.
But even with just a vague image, she was still lovely.
And such a lovely girl had been deeply buried in Furukawa Hirozawa's heart, untouched for a long Time.
Because before this, whenever he thought of her, his heart would ache inexplicably.
But now...
Because of this game, Furukawa Hirozawa's eyes were almost red.
That string was pulled, bringing out old photographs.
Only now did Furukawa Hirozawa realize that some things, some people, could never be forgotten in this lifetime.
Suddenly remembering something, Furukawa Hirozawa hurriedly put down the game controller and rushed back to his room.
From under the bed, he found a small cardboard box.
At the very bottom of the box, a commemorative album lay peacefully.
It wasn't an elementary school album, but a junior high school album.
Even now, he had preserved it completely.
Furukawa gently brushed off the dust, took it to the living room, sat down, and opened it.
Although there were no photos, Furukawa Hirozawa's heart still inexplicably skipped a beat when he saw the familiar delicate handwriting.
It was as if that lovely girl from back then was standing right in front of him.
Just by looking at the words she left behind, Furukawa Hirozawa felt his cheeks flush.
Yoshida Li's dream in the game was: "To become a lovely bride."
And in Furukawa Hirozawa's graduation album, a girl named Yukitake Junna wrote:
"I want to open a cake shop."
"I hope Haoze-kun can come and support me."
Furukawa Hirozawa couldn't hold back when he saw this, touching the familiar lines of text with his finger.
It felt as if fragments of memory suddenly surged out like a tide, spreading and turning into tears welling up in his eyes.
"Ah ~ right, we actually had such a promise."
"But..."
"I wonder if Junna's dream has come true, and where will her cake shop be opened?"
Recalling carefully, Furukawa Hirozawa was startled to realize that he hadn't seen Yukitake Junna for eight years.
However...
Furukawa thought sadly, what good would it do even if he knew?
Junna had probably already gotten married, hadn't she?
After all, Furukawa Hirozawa was also an old man in his 30s now.
...
Putting down the commemorative album, Furukawa Hirozawa composed himself and continued the game.
"Li wrote that she wanted to become a lovely bride." The male protagonist continued his speech.
"Whether she is lovely now remains to be seen…"
The voice of his good friend Kohaku immediately rang out below, "She's lovely now too!"
"Don't talk nonsense."
The camera cut to Yoshida Li's father's face, the old father looking displeased.
Of course, this was just the male protagonist joking.
From this part of the speech, it could be seen that his relationship with the female protagonist was genuinely very good.
Even Li's mother was amused.
"Anyway," Iwa Sejian continued, "I, as her good friend, am very happy that she can fulfill her childhood dream."
When the male protagonist said he was happy, he didn't dare to look into Li's eyes at all.
"At lunch, I laughed so hard that milk spurted out of my nose."
"During the school trip, we took the wrong bus and caused a big commotion."
"In the choir competition, I was the conductor, but I was so excited that I fell off the stage."
"Although she has some eccentricities, Li always worries about the people around her."
"Her own matters always come second."
"Even when sad, she never loses her smile."
"In short, she cares more about her friends than anyone else."
"That's Li."
"The Time we spent together was truly very happy."
At this point, the male protagonist's voice was already a little choked up.
Then he emphasized it again—
"Truly."
And on Yoshida Li's side, the smile disappeared from her face, replaced by glistening tears in her eyes.
To keep herself from crying, Li lowered her head, not daring to look at Iwa Sejian, just silently biting her lip.
Seeing this part, Furukawa Hirozawa felt a mix of emotions.
From the eyes of Li and Iwa Sejian, it could be judged that they should have loved each other.
However, they couldn't be together.
Why was that?
...
Not only watching the girl he loved marry another man, but also having to give a congratulatory speech at the wedding.
Furukawa Hirozawa was really too uncomfortable.
Damn it...
Pokeni is really getting better and better at this.
Before, Pokeni's games would basically only make you cry in the latter half.
For example, the onmyoji series, at the end, they would sharply pull a knife across your heart.
Later, the emotional triggers gradually moved forward.
For example, the scene where the Fireworks Girl ignited herself in Quilt Man, Furukawa Hirozawa still remembered it to this day.
Even more so in CL and LL.
He didn't expect Pokeni to start being so sentimental so early in "proposal daisakusen".
Unbearable.
...
Next, the female protagonist's video began to play at the venue.
These video contents were compiled and recorded by good friends, and there were also many continuous photo slideshows among them.
In this Time without PPT, this method of using projected video tapes to let guests witness the life of the bride and groom was already considered very novel.
The video tape played.
It showed pictures:
The female protagonist's birth.
Her 5-year-old appearance.
Her elementary school appearance...
Occasionally, a short video clip would be interspersed.
From elementary school onwards, almost every photo included Iwa Sejian.
Presumably, he had known Yoshida Li since then.
"The photos, one by one, displayed my useless past self."
"Making me angry at myself."
Iwa Sejian sat nearby, watching the video and drinking, feeling extremely annoyed.
...
He ordered another draft beer.
When he turned his head, a group photo appeared on the big screen.
This was a group photo taken after their first game in the national baseball qualifiers during their high school years.
One could see Iwa Sejian, Kohaku, and Ganxiong all wearing baseball uniforms at this Time.
And Yoshida Li and Aoku Elimei, as team managers, stood in the middle, supporting their knees, slightly bent at the waist.
No one had a smile on their face.
Yoshida Li's face was even filled with disappointment and regret.
"Ah ~ that was that Time." Iwa Sejian sighed.
"That Time, I also gave up halfway."
"However, after losing the game.
That was the first Time I saw Li shed tears out of unwillingness."
...
The male protagonist sighed heavily.
"So unwilling!"
He closed his eyes, thinking with great unwillingness, "I wish I could do it again."
"Again."
"Again!"
...
Just then, a beam of light shone in.
In the entire game screen, the male protagonist seemed to be standing under a spotlight, while everything around him dimmed.
A voice sounded.
"Oscar Wilde once said:"
Eh?!
A middle-aged man in a black tuxedo, holding a top hat, suddenly appeared beside the male protagonist, startling him.
Ignoring the male protagonist, this suddenly appearing man continued to speak to himself:
"Men always want to be a woman's first love."
"Women always want to be a man's last love."
"Although you are a man, you still wish to be her last love, which is quite rare."
"Even now, you haven't completely given up on making her entirely yours."
During this process, the male protagonist also noticed something was wrong—
Everyone at the scene had stopped, as if Time had frozen.
The male protagonist was completely shocked.
The middle-aged man introduced himself to the male protagonist as a fairy, possessing powerful Time-altering abilities. As long as you have enough obsession in your heart and your wish is strong enough, you can use magic to travel back to the Time of the photograph and change the past.
Perhaps he could even win back Li in this way?
"Eh? Time reversal?"
Furukawa Hirozawa's eyes lit up.
He remembered the game "reverse degree person" that Pokeni had once produced.
However, this Time, it seemed like the Time jumps would be more significant.
A similar setting would have to be "The Butterfly Effect," but that movie wouldn't be released until 2004.
So the Time travel game produced by Pokeni was still quite novel.
...
Thus, after receiving the fairy's guidance, in order to change the past and bring Li back to his side, Iwa Sejian began his journey through photographs.
The first past he returned to was the photograph currently being displayed:
The day of the high school baseball qualifiers.
After shouting "Hallelujah, Chance!" and striking an alluring and embarrassing pose.
The entire screen flashed with white light.
The male protagonist instantly traveled to the past.
Furukawa Hirozawa was almost laughing himself to death.
Fortunately, this was an anime, if it were live-action, it would be too embarrassing.
...
"Eh? This is…"
The male protagonist raised his confused and bewildered eyes.
The surroundings were bustling with noise.
And just then, a tall catcher suddenly crashed into him.
Duang!
The male protagonist was knocked to the ground.
The catcher successfully saved the ball and happily ran back onto the field.
It wasn't until he sat up that he realized—
The place he was in now was a spacious baseball field.
...
Furukawa Hirozawa let out a soft "eh".
Eh?
Why is it baseball again?
He remembered that in Quilt Man, a group of "speechless ones" also experienced a baseball game, used to fill their happy daily lives.
In CL, Furukawa Nagisa's father used baseball to test the male protagonist's determination.
In LL, Miyazaki Natsuki often played baseball with his daughter.
Playing baseball has almost become Maeda Jun's standard.
Now, in this "proposal daisakusen", the script clearly states that the Author is Aoki Haruhi, but why does it feel like Maeda Jun wrote the game script?
Could it be that Aoki Haruhi also likes playing baseball?!
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