Open The Steins Gate Is the eleventh and last chapter of the Steins;Gate visual novel.
Plot[]
On 21st of August, Daru receives a call from a “mysterious woman” in the lab. He passes it onto Rintaro and finds it was Suzuha from the future.
Confused, Rintaro goes to Radio Kaikan that was still sealed off due to an unsolved murder investigation. On the roof he finds Suzuha and the satellite-shaped time machine hadn’t crashed this time. She claims the Third World War takes place in the future where she comes from. This results in a causality of 5.7 billion people. Rintaro grabs her, wondering if Kurisu’ death and everything he has been through was for nothing. Suzuha calms him down to say that to change this new bleak future, they have to save Kurisu. They must reach the “Steins Gate” timeline. Recognizing the machine from the first time he had seen on 28th July, believing it to be convergence he decides to get into the machine, after a little push from Mayuri and Daru.
This time they were they going to use Suzuha’s completed time machine to travel back in the time to 28th July, the day of the Conference. Unlike the model (FG204) in the previous timeline, this new model (C204) allows them to travel back and forward in time. After arriving back in time, Suzuha breaks the emergency exit open with her gun. Suzuha warns Rintaro that he must not run into his past self. While recalling the events which happened on the 28th of July, Okabe suddenly realizes the past him runs up to the roof, and manages to get away just in time. He runs down to the 4th Floor. While recollecting his thoughts about the previous time he was there, he ran into Kurisu again. This marks the first time Okabe and Kurisu meet from Kurisu's perspective. Kurisu was investigating the source of the sound which emitted from the rooftop, and wanted to inquire if Rintaro knew anything about it. Trying to hold his emotion in he tries to grab her hand, only to grow suspicious in her eyes. He realizes that she would never follow a man she doesn't know, thus theorizes the only way to save her is to head to the spot of her murder and wait for a chance. He tries to leave, but Kurisu stops him. He mutters that he will save her, but stops midway realizing how powerless he was with Mayuri. Staying there any longer would risk his emotions getting the better of him thus Rintaro makes a run for it.
Rintaro hides himself near where Kurisu is found murdered. Moments later Kurisu appears happily holding a manila envelope. She appeared to be waiting for someone. Dr. Nakabachi appears and it turns out he was her father. Kurisu really wanted to help restore her father’s reputation about time travel but he thought she wanted to steal his glory. He takes out a knife, saying it was her fault he was made a fool. He’s going to take credit for her work instead.
Rintaro leaps out trying to stop him and manages to take the knife away. Nakabachi picks up a screwdriver on the floor. When Kurisu asks her father to stop, he charges her with the screwdriver instead. Kurisu blocks a few blows from her father with her arm while Okabe stares in horror. As the angered Rintaro gets ready to strike, he charges in Nakabachi's direction. A splash of blood covers his lab coat but it wasn’t Nakabachi’s… the blood came from Kurisu. She had moved in to protect her father. Rintaro shocked at what had happened held onto Kurisu as Nakabachi took Kurisu's thesis and made a run for it. Kurisu didn’t know who he was but apologies that he had to get caught up in this mess. Her voice started to trail away quietly, barely uttering that she didn’t want to die and wanted help. Finally she dies in Rintaro's arms, who lets out a scream in terror of the events he had just witnessed. Suzuha rushes to help the shocked Rintaro back to the time machine, now knowing that the cry he heard in the building was his own.
Rintaro was ready to give up trying to save Kurisu believing that the convergence of events meant he couldn’t do it just like when he tried to save Mayuri but, Mayuri slaps him and tries to encourage him to try again. Just then, his phone rings and he receives an anonymous e-mail telling him to watch TV. Rintaro recognized the date… It was from the future and that means it must be a D-Mail! They turn on the TV channel on his phone and find the cargo hold in the plane that Nakabachi was on, had caught fire while he was being exiled to Russia. The time travel documents he stole would have been burned too but, thanks to the rare metal “Upa” being detected during the security scans, he ended up carrying the documents with him. Somehow, Nakabachi had picked it up when Mayuri lost it. As a result, the Third World War breaks out between the countries in a race to obtain time travel.
Suzuha knew all along that all this was going to happen – including Rintaro failing to save Kurisu. She apologies that she didn’t explain everything to him but, she was instructed by Rintaro from the future to let him fail once. She points to his phone indicating there is another D-Mail he must have received on 28th July. He mentions that it was static, so he thought it was spam. Then Suzuha specifies he can view it now, since he saved to fail Kurisu once. It contains an attachment with a video clip in it, from 2025.
Rintaro opens the video and sees a silhouette of himself. He hears his own voice. It turns out he had to let Kurisu be killed once or he would never have had the will to upgrade the D-Mail system so that he can send a recording back in time. The Future Rintaro explains he’s suffered the guilt for 15 years and has concluded that time travel will not save Kurisu. What they had to do was to stop the time machine from ever being invented and feign Kurisu’ death to fool the world and himself. Otherwise he would never be able to send a message long enough to himself. Kurisu will also be saved because her father will think she died in Japan. The metal Upa must also be replaced so that the documents end up being left in the cargo hold and burned.
Rintaro remembers one of his gadgets can create fake looking blood and gets Mayuri to go fetch it. He also prepares a taser to stun Kurisu. It was the last trip before the time machine runs out of fuel. He had to save Kurisu this time. On the way back, he asked Suzuha if they'd run into their past selves. Suzuha explains that each time a time machine is used, the worldl ine changes shifting divergence by 0.000001%, so they would be safe.
After arriving back in the past at the exact same time, Rintaro hurries down so that he is the first to use the Gatchapon machines and retrieves the only limited edition Metal Upa inside. Just in case, Future Rintaro hides to confirm Mayuri only gets a plastic one. In order to keep the past events the same, Okabe prepares himself to run into Kurisu on the 4th floor again. This time with more determination he is able to say what he couldn't in the last attempt. He says that 'He will save her', before making a run for it again.
An announcement that the time travel presentation was about to start. Mayuri rushes off and drops the Upa. While waiting Rintaro finds Kurisu picking it up. She looks around to see who could have dropped it but since there was no one around, she ends up putting it inside the envelope with the time travel theory documents.
Rintaro makes his way to the same spot where Kurisu meets her father and was going to use the gadget to create fake blood to scare them but, it was clogged up. He had to think of another plan. Rintaro intervenes at the same time again but this time with his confident Hyouma “mad scientist” ego back again. He provokes Nakabachi to stab him and succeeds. Rintaro is stabbed and he takes the knife. He then takes out a stun gun, threatening that he will kill both Nakabachi and Kurisu then have his way with her. Kurisu tries to help Rintaro but ends up being stunned from the taser and passes out onto the floor. Scared, Nakabachi flees the scene.
Suzuha arrives just in time as Rintaro opens up his wound to create a pool of blood on the floor. He was betting on convergence of events mean he won’t die. After letting Suzuha move Kurisu onto the pool of blood, they slowly make their way back to the time machine. Ready to travel back to the future, Rintaro closes his eyes just as Suzuha says farewell, hoping it really is the “Steins Gate” timeline that awaited them.
It’s been a month since Rintaro was hospitalised but he had recovered now. It was another beautiful summer day and he had in his pocket a replica of the pin badge that Suzuha had brought back with her to the past. He had asked Daru to make 8 of them when he visited at the hospital. He goes about visiting every person he had made a lab member even though they had no memories of being one in this timeline – Luka, Faris and Moeka (who was now working part time at Braun’s). Daru and Mayuri got one too back at the lab. There was no satellite now but a badge will be kept for Suzuha in the future.
Dr. Nakabachi remains exiled in Russia and was detained for questioning about the assault at Radio Kaikan but nothing was known about Kurisu’s whereabouts. As Rintaro took a walk through the streets of Akiba, he sees a familiar figure passing by. He stops and turns round. There standing before him was Kurisu. She had been looking for him, wanting to thank him for saving her that day even though they had never met. For old times sake, Rintaro takes out his phone pretending to be talking to the secret organisation he was working for and then welcomes back “Christina”. For some reason, she reacts the same way she would have from the timeline when she was a lab member, saying she is neither "Christina" nor his "assistant" shocking both Rintaro and Kurisu.
Rintaro takes out the last unclaimed pin badge and welcomes Kurisu back, claiming everything was according to “Steins Gate” choice.
Characters[]
By order of apparence: TBA
Chapter Title Explanation[]
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