Interpreter Rendezvous Is the second chapter of the Steins;Gate visual novel
Plot[]
Kurisu returns to her hotel, refusing to believe the PhoneWave (name subject to change) was a time machine. Meanwhile, Rintaro follows up with the ”John Titor” posts appearing in the @channel message boards claiming of SERN controlling the future and how he was to track down an old IBN 5100 to decipher a key that will change the future for the better.
Rintaro decides to ask “Super Hacker” Daru to break into the SERN servers and while he was working away, he goes down to the old Braun’s TV store to pick up the broken TV he had left there to get fixed. Suzuha, the new girl who was working part time there, told them it was ready. It seems that Tennouji, the shop owner, was not too happy about all the noise they have been making during the experiments. For some reason, Suzuha appears to be very interested in the IBN 5100 too and Rintaro soon learns that she is quite a Titor fan as well.
After some probing, Daru finally manages to find some login info to let them get into the server. There they find an odd program that even Daru does not recognise. A thought strikes Rintaro that the IBN 5100 might be needed to decipher it. Sending a sample of the code to Titor, it is confirmed they need one. However, no one knows where it is but rumours have it that there was one in Akihabara.
Rintaro spends most of his day walking around trying to find clues but without any luck. Fortunately, during her shift at the MayQueen+Nyan² maid café, Mayuri learns of the computer’s whereabouts. Her friend and colleague Faris NyanNyan knew where it was but was not going to give up the info for free. Rintaro is invited to play against her in a match of RaiNet AccessBattlers. He agrees and loses badly but the deal was simply to play a match, not to beat her.
They soon learn it was at the old shrine where one of their friends Luka stays. Someone had left it there long ago, mysteriously claiming a young man in the future will have need of it. It was not a light computer despite being “portable” at 25kg and the truck was broken. Fortunately, Kurisu had tagged along curious to know more about the computer. Together they barely manage to move it back to the lab.
As they stop briefly by the bottom of the stairs, Suzuha meets Kurisu for the first time and glares at her. Puzzled, they watched her It was a while before she return inside the store without saying a word.
While Daru goes about finding a different ID with higher level privileges, Rintaro lets Moeka know they had found it and explains their situation to Kurisu. As they wait for Daru, she decides to look into the PhoneWave further. Before long, Daru discovers a database that the mysterious program deciphers and find SERN had indeed successfully discovered time travel but have failed to transport humans so far. It is then that Kurisu believes that time machines exist.
Characters[]
By order of apparence: TBA
Chapter Title Explanation[]
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