Steins;Gate 0 (visual novel)/Plot

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Contents: Story Structure, Plot Summary, References and Notes =Story Structure= [Text to be added...]

=Plot Summary= Chapters: Prologue Absolute Zero Closed Epigraph A Stray Sheep The Orbital Eclipse Twin Automata (Maho Ending) Antinomic Dual Recursive Mother Goose (Kagari Ending) Promised Rinascimento (Kurisu Ending) X-day Protocol Pandora’s Box Gehenna’s Stigma (Leskinen Ending) Pandora’s Box 2 Presage or Recognize Vega and Altair (Mayuri Ending) Milky-way Crossing (True Ending)

Prologue
The story starts with flashes of Okabe's experiences; Kurisu and Doctor Nakabachi, her father choking her, charging to attack Doctor Nakabachi when suddenly Kurisu rushes in between, and lastly Kurisu covered in blood fallen against him. The time machine's hatch opens upon world line divergence 1.129848%, 2010/08/21 17:56:01hrs.

Absolute Zero
Full Title: 零化域のミッシングリンク –Absolute Zero– (Reikaiki no Misshingu Rinku, Missing Link of the Annihilator )

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/08/21

Suzuha pulls the bloodied and in shock Okabe from the time machine. Mayuri and Daru rush over in concern, and Suzuha sends her father for a towel, water, and some clothes. Okabe, wishing desperately for nothing but to be left alone, falls to his knees under his extreme fatigue, the hopelessness, and the crushing weight of having killed Kurisu.

When Mayuri asks what happened, he admits that he killed Kurisu and everything is his fault. Suzuha tries to reason with him to try again, but fails as Okabe knows how impossible it is to escape world line convergence no matter what you try. Suzuha comes to the point where she is going to slap Okabe in an attempt to bring him back to his senses, but Mayuri stops her. Mayuri does not believe that it is alright to force someone who is so shattered. Suzuha argues that at this rate the future will not change, but Mayuri asks her why Okabe alone has to shoulder the burden of the future. Suzuha explains that Okabe has the ability to observe the world, but Mayuri does not change her opinion. That ability was something that Okabe had not wished for, and she thinks that Okabe might only get hurt once more if they try again. For one person to change the world's future must be impossible.

Suzuha starts to mention the Steins Gate, but stops and explains instead that she understands Mayuri's feelings, but she traveled to this time with the future on the line and can no longer return to 2036. Giving up so easily is not an option for her. She addresses Okabe telling him that the time machine has a limited amount of fuel, but there is some surplus. However, it is only enough to travel 344 days. Before a full year has passed it will become impossible to reach July 28 even when making a one way trip. Before it comes to that, she will jump to the past again even if it is only her who goes.

However, by this time Okabe is so far gone in his exhaustion and shock that though he can tell that someone is speaking to him, he cannot make out the words. As he begs internally to be released, Mayuri embraces him. She calls out to him that it is alright to not keep trying, that he can cry, and that she is by his side. Okabe begins to brokenly sob.

He doesn't know what brought Mayuri to say such things, but as his tears overflow, he decides to forget everything and that is why from that day forward he never visits the Future Gadget Laboratory.

Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/11/23 11:36:01

POV: Rintaro Okabe

After Okabe has given up on everything, he discards his Chuunibyou name “Hououin Kyouma” and decides to live as a normal college student. Three months later, he is helping out an assistant professor of his university, named Izaki, because Izaki has connections to Kurisu’s university, Viktor Chondria, where Okabe would like to go to learn more about her research and continue it if possible.

Izaki is participating in the winter Akihabara Techno Forum(ATF), and Okabe is helping him out by working at the convention’s reception desk when Okabe meets Maho Hiyajo, a 21 year-old woman who looks like a young pre-teen. He, like many others before him, treats her at first like a child, much to her irritation, until she weariedly shows him her I.D. card from Viktor Chondria University’s Brain Science Institute. Realizing his mistake, he apologizes, and as the two talk she invites him to come listen to the seminar on artificial intelligence of Professor Alexis Leskinen, whom she is assisting. With Okabe guiding her, she proceeds to the staff room.

As Maho walks away after they part, Okabe sees Moeka Kiryu, who has an appointment to interview Maho’s professor, approach Maho. Seeing Moeka once more causes Okabe to suffer the beginnings of a panic attack due to his PTSD from his experiences in the Alpha world lines. He attempts to calm himself and swallows some tranquilizing medicine.

While waiting for the medicine to fully kick in, Okabe’s eye is caught by the pamphlet for Izaki’s lecture, which is lying on the reception table. Izaki will be speaking about pseudoscience and the “Nakabachi thesis”, which is how the thesis that Nakabachi stole from Kurisu has come to be known as. Okabe reflects on what has happened since Nakabachi defected to Russia. Since then, the time machine theory Nakabachi presented remains hard to accept for the public academic, scientific society. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service controls information to prevent leaks, and Nakabachi is happily living without being aware that he is really being kept under a loose house-arrest. However, following what John Titor from 2036 said, an information war is already underway beneath the surface.

Awhile later, Okabe heads to the lecture hall where Maho and Leskinen will be presenting. On his way there, he sees Maho and Leskinen come out of the venue’s staff room and overhears a scrap of their conversation in English. He is able to barely make out “Makise”, “Kurisu’s house on fire”, “Mrs. Makise is fine”, “robber”, “investigation suspended”, “Why did the FBI come?”, “strange”.

Upon entering the filled lecture hall, Okabe notices that Moeka is in attendance and searches for a seat away from her. As Leskinen’s presentation, entitled “Revolution in Artificial Intelligence”, begins, Maho stands next to the professor and provides simultaneous interpretation. Their current research incorporates Kurisu’s research that was published the year before in Sciency magazine on the nerve pulse signals of memories and the temporal lobe and the theory of turning analog memories into digital patterns. Based on her theory, Leskinen’s team is developing a system that converts human memory into digital data and stores them in a computer.

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/11/23

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/11/28

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Page: Top - Story Structure, Plot Summary Top, References and Notes

Closed Epigraph
Full Title: 閉時曲線のエピグラフ –Closed Epigraph– (Heijikyokusen no Epigurafu, Epigraph of the Closed Curve)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/11/29

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/11/29

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/04

POV: Fubuki (Katsumi Nakase)

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/05

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/05

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/10

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/15

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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A Stray Sheep
Full Title: 亡失流転のソリチュード –A Stray Sheep– (Boushitsu Ruten no Sorichūdo, Solitude of the Mournful Flow)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/16

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/16

POV: ---

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/17

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/20

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/20

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/23

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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The Orbital Eclipse
Full Title: 軌道秩序のエクリプス –The Orbital Eclipse– (Kidouchitsujo no Ekuripusu, Eclipse of Orbital Ordering)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/23

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2010/12/24

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2011/01/01

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2011/01/01

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2011/01/01

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2011/01/01

POV: Luka Urushibara

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2011/01/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.064750%

Date: 2011/01/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Twin Automata (Maho Ending)
Full Title: 存在証明のオートマトン –Twin Automata– (Sonzai Shoumei no Outomaton, Automaton of Provable Existence)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/03

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/04

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/05

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/05

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/05

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/05

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.081163%

Date: 2011/01/31

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Antinomic Dual
Full Title: 二律背反のデュアル –Antinomic Dual– (Niritsuhaihan no Dhuaru, Antimony's Dual)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 0.571082%

Date: 2011/01/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/02

POV: Kagari Shiina

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/03

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/04

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/04

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/06

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/06

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .09
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/06

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .10
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/11

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .11
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .12
Divergence: 1.053649%

Date: 2011/01/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Recursive Mother Goose (Kagari Ending)
Full Title: 相互再帰のマザーグース –Recursive Mother Goose– (Sougosaiki no Mazā Gūsu, Mother Goose of Mutual Recursion)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2011/01/14

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: ????/??/??

POV: Kagari Shiina

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2011/01/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2011/01/16

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2005/06/05

POV: Kagari Shiina

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2011/01/16

POV: Kagari Shiina

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2011/1-6

POV: Kagari Shiina

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.064756%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Promised Rinascimento (Kurisu Ending)
Full Title: 盟誓のリナシメント –Promised Rinascimento– (Meisei no Rinashimento, Rinascimento of the Unwavering Promise)

Chapter .01
Divergence: ???????%

Date: ---

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2036/??/??

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2036/??/??

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2011/01/31

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2011/02/01

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2011/02/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2011/02/02

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.055821%

Date: 2011/02/06

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Date: 2011/12

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X-day Protocol
Full Title: 双対福音のプロトコル –X-Day Protocol– (Sōtsui fukuin no Purotokoru, Protocol of the Two-sided Gospel)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/15

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/19

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/21

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/24

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/24

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129848%

Date: 2010/12/24

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Pandora's Box
Full Title: 永劫回帰のパンドラ –Pandora's Box– (Eigou Kaiki no Pandora, Pandora of Eternal Return)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.382733%

Date: ---

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/21

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/21

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/23

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/23

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/23

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Gehenna’s Stigma (Leskinen Ending)
Full Title: 私秘鏡裏のスティグマ –Gehenna's Stigma– (Shihikyouri no Sutiguma, Stigma Behind the Hidden Mirror, alt.: The Stigma Beyond The Secret Mirror)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/03

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/25

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 1998/08/??

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/25

POV: Suzuha Amane

[To be added...]

Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/03

POV: Rintaro Okabe

[To be added...]

Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/03

POV: Suzuha Amane

[To be added...]

Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/06

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

[To be added...]

Chapter .09
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .10
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/08

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter Title Explanation
私秘鏡裏のスティグマ –Gehenna's Stigma– (Shihikyouri no Sutiguma, Stigma of Behind the Hidden Mirror)

The word “stigma” is used in the sense of a mark of wrongness/criminality. This is pressed upon an individual by another/others and affects said individual’s social existence.

The English half of the title, “Gehenna’s Stigma”, gives it a sense of repugnance and taboo. Gehenna is a name from the Bible that refers to the Valley of Hinnom where human sacrifices were burned to Canaanite gods. -The name and its burning fire later acquired the connotation of eternal torture/punishment and Hell. - As a symbol, it brings forth the feelings and mental images of human death, burnt bodies, and depravity. “Gehenna’s Stigma” can therefore be interpreted as a “taboo mark”.

In the Japanese half of the title, though the first part “私秘鏡裏” (Shihikyouri) should be read as kanji on'yomi as other titles, but its meaning is not that intuitive. However, the characters can be interpreted as “the me hidden behind/in the back of/within the mirror”. Also, the characters for "mirror"(鏡) and "back"(裏), in this instance together pronounced "kyouri", are similar in sound to the word "表裏"(hyouri), which means "two-sides" or an "inside and outside". It refers to Kagari Shiina who is a two-sided character in the story. Just like how a mirror surface shows not what is behind it, there is more behind what people readily see of her.

As a pawn in Leskinen’s conspiracy, she is manipulated and made to fraudulently pose as Yuki Amane, though her own true feelings and intentions are completely different. Leskinen holds this power over her by committing the taboo deed of overwriting individual personality via brainwashing. He poses as a people-loving university professor, but in truth behind his outer appearance is a real mad scientist of Strategic Focus.

The title ultimately describes how Kagari suffers and piles up crimes under the “stigma/mark” which Leskinen forces upon her, and as she is burned by the fire of Gehenna, it is already no longer possible to save her.

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/23

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/23

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Presage or Recognize
Full Title: 弾性限界のリコグナイズ –Presage or Recognize– (Dansei Genkai no Rikogunaizu, Recognition of the Elastic Limit)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/01/26

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/03

POV: Kagari Shiina

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/25

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/25

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 1998/08/??

POV: Suzuha Amane

[To be added...]

Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/06/25

POV: Suzuha Amane

[To be added...]

Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/03

POV: Rintaro Okabe

[To be added...]

Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/02

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Vega and Altair (Mayuri Ending)
Full Title: 無限遠点のアルタイル –Vega and Altair– (Mugen'en-ten no Arutairu, Altair of the Point at Infinity)

Chapter .01
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Maho Hiyajo

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Chapter .02
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .03
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .04
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .05
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .06
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Suzuha Amane

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Chapter .07
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Chapter .08
Divergence: 1.129954%

Date: 2011/07/07

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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Milky-way Crossing (True Ending)
Full Title: 交差座標のスターダスト –Milky-Way Crossing– (Kousa Zahyou no Sutādasuto, Stardust of Intersected Co-Ordinates)

Divergence: ---%

Date: 2025/??/??

POV: Rintaro Okabe

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