Metaphysics Necrosis Is the sixth chapter of the Steins;Gate visual novel, it also features the first alternate ending available, the Suzuha Amane ending
Plot[]
The machine starts up so his memory time leaps into the past and Rintaro found himself dreaming of the time when Mayuri’s grandmother passed away. The time when he made her his “hostage” so that he could protect her and give a place of belonging. He wakes up from the dream and finds himself standing in the lab with a very bad headache. Kurisu is calling out to him wondering why he was spacing out in front of the PhoneWave. They still had some work to do before they could time leap. Everything seemed normal. Perhaps it was just a nightmare Rintaro had but everything had a uncomfortable “deja vu” feeling. He knew exactly what everyone was going to do or say next.
By the time he realised he had successfully time leaped, it was too late. Moeka and the rest of the SERN team had broken into the lab and Mayuri was shot again. Rintaro rushes to the machine to time leap again.
Despite his best efforts to change his childhood friend’s fate, Rintaro could not stop Mayuri from dying. No matter how many times he time leaped, Mayuri died one way or another whether it was a car accident or being killed by a member of SERN. It was as if some things were destined to happen.
Eventually, during another time leap, Suzuha overhears his conversation with Kurisu that Mayuri was going to die. Thinking she had herself to blame, Suzuha runs off and Rintaro finds her trying to launch the crashed satellite. Unfortunately, it had been damaged during the storm and was filled with water. Suzuha reveals she was the “John Titor” from the discussion boards and feels it is time to explain everything.
The satellite was a time machine and as she wrote on @channel, she was travelling back in time to retrieve the IBN 5100 and was making a stop. However, she mixed in some false bits of information to throw SERN off the scent. She goes onto explain how time was like interwined threads and time travelling meant to shift between the different timelines – parallel worlds. To move to a completely different timeline where history is completely different from the others, they must move out of a certain range known as the “Attractor Field”. Kurisu was the one who helped SERN complete the time machine but as she goes over the details about how Rintaro formed a resistance and what was going to happen soon, she decided that Kurisu must have been forced to help them under threat. The misunderstanding between them is cleared up.
Unfortunately, the IBN 5100 was no longer in their possession after shifting the world timeline so many times with the D-Mails they sent. The only way to get it back now was to let Suzuha travel back in the satellite shaped time machine and retrieve it for them. The problem was it has been damaged during the rainy night. They sneak in together and Daru takes a look. He should be able to fix the damaged parts. What’s more, the time machine only had enough fuel left for one more trip and it was incomplete, only allowing her to travel back in time.
Suzuha takes out a meter with a row of numbers on it. It was made by Rintaro in the future, a “divergence meter”. To change the future and save Mayuri from her fate, they must shift the timeline until the meter is over 1%. Without letting Mayuri know what will happen to her, they conclude that a certain event must be the root of Mayuri’s fate. Rintaro remembers how Moeka claimed their completion of the time machine was a threat. They must have been monitored all this time. Suzuha mentions SERN has been capturing everything that was sent over the communication networks and is stored inside the database that only the IBN 5100 can decipher. They must have managed to capture the initial D-Mail Rintaro had sent about Kurisu’ death! They’ll have to wipe the entry from the logs.
Meanwhile, Rintaro and the others try to help Suzuha find her father using the pin badge he had made for the resistance as a clue. It’s sad that it will be a one way trip back to the past for her.
Soon the machine is fixed and everyone is gathered by the satellite but they had no luck finding who Suzuha’s father is. To everyone’s surprise, Mayuri claims she had figured out who Suzuha’s father was. She points to the initials on the badge, pointing out each of the initials stood for one of the lab members. The time machine was named in a way similar to how Daru names his work and daru can sound like “Barrel” The only person who knew the lab member names and was computer literate was… Daru! It was quite a shock of course.
After a happy but bitter reunion, Suzuha leaves and everyone waits in the lab for some kind of change. To their surprise, Tennouji appears with a letter that was addressed to them. It was a letter from a lady. They open it up and find out it was from Suzuha. She had written it while inside a mental hospital. It turns out the time machine hadn’t been fixed. Although she managed to travel back to the correct time, she lost her memory and it wasn’t until 20 years had passed did she remember her purpose. By then it was too late to retrieve the IBN 5100.
On the very last paragraph, Suzuha writes to Rintaro he should never have stopped her going back in time that certain day when she had overheard about Mayuri’s death during one of Rintaro’s time leaps. If he didn’t, the storm wouldn’t have damaged her time machine and she wouldn’t have wasted her life in a hospital.
Rintaro quickly runs downstairs to catch up with Tennouji, wanting to know where Suzuha was now and how they came to know each other. It turns out that Tennouji had come from overseas with nowhere to stay. Eventually Suzuha had taken him under her wing… Before she hanged herself.
The hour when SERN attacks arrives. Remembering Mayuri’s fate, Rintaro decides to change the future again using the D-Mail to order himself not to stop Suzuha, claiming it was a trap from SERN.
Irreversible Reboot[]
Rintaro decides not to send the D-Mail so that Suzuha doesn’t have to be all alone in the past and erasing her memories of their time together at the lab. He time leaps to continue trying to save Mayuri but fails as before. Despair soon descended and Rintaro let himself time leap to the same period again and again, when everyone was just happily together, cycling. Nothing sad was going to happen. Maybe it was over a hundred times he time leaped… He became so fed up of seeing the same happy scenes repeatedly, sinister thoughts started to appear. He can just “reset” everything as if nothing happened after all by time leaping.
Suzuha's Ending
Eventually, after another time leap, Suzuha noticed the change in Rintaro’s expression. His eyes looked as if he was brain washed like the people from the future she came from. She invites Rintaro to travel back to the past to find the IBN 5100 together with her and Rintaro agrees. It is implied in interviews that this is a happy ending.
Characters[]
By order of apparence: TBA
Chapter Title Explanation[]
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