The universe had a beginning, but has no end.
Infinite.
The stars, too, had beginnings,
but their own power leads them to their destruction.
Finite.
History dictates that it is the wise who are the most foolish.
One could call this a final warning from God,
to those who can still resist.
Okarin!
Let's go.
Prologue
to
the
Beginning
and
End
Initiating infiltration of the building.
El. Psy. Congroo.
There aren't many people here.
As I suspected, the Organization may be interfering...
What's going to happen here?
You came here, without even knowing?
Professor Nakabachi's Time Machine Invention Press Conference
A time machine...
Professor Nakabachi's Time Machine Invention Press Conference
Amazing!
Professor Nakabachi's Time Machine Invention Press Conference
Professor Nakabachi has surpassed the rest of us scientists,
and is ready to announce the invention of the century.
I'm going to pay careful attention to what he has to say.
Professor Nakabachi's Time Machine Invention Press Conference
An earthquake?
No, from above?
What's this?
You called me here for this?
There aren't many left of this series,
and Mayushii's out of 100 yen coins!
Don't act so spoiled, Mayuri.
Even though I've known you since we were kids, I'm not lending you any money.
I'll teach you how harsh life can be...
What's this?
It's not painted?
M-Metal...
It's a metal!
A metal Upa!
Is it rare?
Really!
Then you can have it.
Are you sure, Okarin?
It's Hououin Kyouma.
Thanks, Okarin.
I said it's Hououin Kyouma.
Professor Nakabachi's press conference
will now begin in the 8th floor's hall.
In the handouts, you can read about
the time machine's basic design.
I will use this conference as an opportunity
to discuss the fundamental theory behind it.
Scientists all over the world...
I think I dropped my metal Upa,
Received Mail
Time:
Sender: Mayuri
Subject: My Upa...
so I'm going to look for it.
Currently, there are over ten major theories
of possible methods of time travel,
Basic design of the time machine...
and they've been examined
from nearly every possible angle.
Doctor!
What is it?
You know exactly what!
What is this "time machine theory" of yours?
Kerr black holes?
World lines?
You stole all of this from John Titor!
Titor called himself a time traveler,
and posted this theory on the Internet back in 2000.
Don't try to claim you didn't know!
How rude!
Of course I know about him!
Don't compare my theory to that fraud's!
Then why don't you explain
the differences between your theories?
Hey, you...
Titor, huh?
Come to think of it, there was
similar stuff in the John Titor books...
Who are you?
That's what I'd like to know.
What?
Back there, you were going to tell me something,
weren't you?
Back there?
About 15 minutes ago.
I don't have the slightest idea—
Makise... Kurisu?
You had a paper in Science Magazine a while ago.
I'm surprised you know of it.
Are you a university scientist?
You!
Are you an agent from the Organization?
Organization?
What?
I just wanted to ask you—
There's no need for me to answer you!
It's me.
I've been caught by an Organization agent.
Yes.
Makise Kurisu.
Who are you talking to?
Yeah, no problem.
I'll get out of this somehow—
Huh? It's turned off.
I'll tell you a secret.
That's a special cell phone, for secret missions.
If anyone but me touches it, it turns off.
I see.
You were talking to yourself.
I'll make this brief.
What were you going to tell me?
About 15 minutes ago.
You were trying to tell me something, weren't you?
It seemed like it was really important...
I've seen through your tricks.
Girl genius, next time we meet, we will be enemies.
Farewell.
Wait!
What was she talking about?
She met me?
Received Mail
Date: 2010/07/28 12:26 Sender: sg-epk@jtk92.x29.jp Subject: (No Subject) Attachment: IMV001
Okarin!
Mayuri!
What were you doing?
I messaged you, didn't I?
I can't find my metal Upa.
I even put my name on it...
You dropped it?
I think so.
Give up.
On auction sites, a metal Upa goes for 10,000 yen!
10,000 yen...!
Find it!
My lab is almost entirely out of money!
Even if I find it, I won't sell it.
With 10,000 yen, we could acquire the parts for a new future gadget...
I said I'm not selling it.
What was that?
Run outside!
Hey...
Is someone there?
Makise Kurisu...
What?
Someone's been stabbed...
Okarin!
What's wrong?
You're pale.
Someone died...
On the 8th floor!
Looks like someone stabbed Makise Kurisu.
To: Daru
Subject: Trouble
Send?
Wh-What?
What's going on?
Here you go, Okarin!
What is this?
Huh? What's what?
The people... Why did all the people disappear?
They disappeared?
They all disappeared!
All the people here! Right in front of us!
I don't know...
You have to know!
You saw it, didn't you?
Right?
I didn't.
What are you talking about—
suujuuoku mo no kodou no kazu sae
Even the number of several billion heartbeats
suujuuoku mo no kodou no kazu sae
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
{}is basic research with little glamor for you
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
{}Even locked in the past and lamenting the future
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
it's an inevitability that won't forgive miscalculating one speck of dust
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
{}The dreams that stretch out forever and the future we imagine
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
{}are a vain theory we allowed
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
{}Finity, that's what the two hands of the clock point out
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
{}towards a cruel agreement and choice
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
Hacking to the Gate
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
{}That's why I want to cross world lines with each passing second
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
{}and protect your smile
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
{}And once again, into a time loop that contains no sadness
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
A swallowed solitary observer
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
Hey, you there!
Can you see us?
Why don't you answer?
You, on the other side of the monitor, with the dumb expression!
Never mind.
This is the Future Gadget Lab.
I'll introduce our staff.
First is Lab Member 001,
founder of the lab and the Insane Mad Scientist...
Myself, Hououin Kyouma!
Okarin is cuter.
Silence!
Okabe Rintarou is the name I use to deceive the general public.
Lab Member 002,
the lab's lone female member, whose hobby is making cosplay outfits,
Shiina Mayuri!
It's me, Mayushii.
And Lab Member 003, Super Haker Hashida Itaru!
It's "Hacker", not "Haker". Hurr.
We three.
Isn't it time to give up?
Don't expect too much out of software you bought at a 500 yen wagon sale.
Listen well.
Future Gadget Lab
CRT TV
Work- shop
To get to our lab, go down Chuo Street,
and turn left on Kuramae Street at the Suehirochou intersection.
We're in a multi-use building, in the first alley before the traffic light.
The goal of the Future Gadget Lab
is to revolutionize the world's ruling structure...
To create inventions which will bring chaos.
Do you understand?
If you understand, then tell us your secrets!
Hey, do you think we look like a video game to that Alpaca Man?
Don't you think the concepts of what's real and unreal are a little beyond him?
Then are your 2D girls like that, too?
That's different.
They are mai waifus.
No one cares about your wives.
But isn't that an interesting proposition?
If we did exist solely inside a monitor,
do you think there's any way we could tell?
No.
That was fast.
Thus, this discussion is pointless.
We'd do much better to spend our time
thinking of ways to fight the Organization
and destroy the world's ruling structure.
That delusional crap again? Fail!
Silence, Super Haker!
I am the Insane Mad Scientist, Hououin...
Kyouma!
That's your story, isn't it?
My, my... Daru.
You shouldn't go hiding in your shell.
You should listen to what others have to say.
So, this is today's "you're the last one I want to hear that from" thread.
Anyways, it looks like the news chopper's arrived.
This object, thought to be some kind of satellite, crashed in Akihabara, Tokyo,
Special Report
Where did it come from?
A mysterious satellite appears!!
around 12 o'clock today.
What was that?
This morning, Mayuri and I left the lab for the radio building,
to attend Professor Nakabachi's press conference.
But the next thing I knew, a satellite had crashed into the building.
And not just that...
Me?
Yeah... You saw the satellite crash on TV and said,
"The Organization has finally made its move!"
So the two of us came to see it.
Canceled?
Weren't you angry this morning,
saying that he got cold feet and ran off?
Professor Nakabachi's press conference!
It was at 12 o'clock, at the radio building!
No, it wasn't, man.
And a good thing, too...
If it had, that satellite would have flattened you.
This discrepancy in memories...
Is it the Organization's memory control?
That's right!
This is the choice of Steins Gate!
That again?
That Stein-whatsit makes no sense, you know?
Daru, get me Future Gadget #1!
Alpaca Man got mad because you changed the channel.
Darn you, Mr. Braun!
Making us use this piece of crap...
He gave it to us for free, didn't he?
Daru, get the TV!
I refuse.
It's hot today.
And like,
don't think I'm strong, just 'cause I'm fat.
That's not something to brag about!
Mr. Braun!
I told you to call me Tennouji.
I'd like to ask you to fix this immediately...
You broke it already?
You don't have enough love for the Braun tubes.
1,000 yen to fix it.
If anyone's at fault here, wouldn't it be you,
for giving us something defective?
Is that how you address your landlord?
I'll pay the repair bill.
Mayuri, you should give up on this guy.
But Mayushii is Okarin's hostage!
Hostage, huh?
Is this broken as well?
Repair bill's 2,000 yen now.
Wha—
You don't like it, take it back.
What will you do?
It's me.
The Organization's finally gotten to that stupid baldy.
I'm encountering sabotage.
Here you go.
You really do like Dr Pepper, Okarin!
It's an intellectual drink, for the chosen ones.
The cicadas sound amazing, don't they?
Daru!
Now that the Organization has begun using Mr. Braun to sabotage us,
we must not postpone any longer.
We're putting the plan into action!
The plan? The what now?
The plan is the plan!
What else could it be but the introduction of
Future Gadget #8 to an actual combat situation?
Oh, the Phone Microwave. (name subject to change)
How do you use a microwave in combat anyway?
It'll be nearly three and a half years since we'd met.
Second year of high school...
We were in different classes and barely spoke,
so it's more like two years?
The details don't matter.
Anyway, it's been that long.
Please reach the point where you can keep up with my conversations already.
That is.... Im-po-ssi-ble.
Actually, want to try again?
It's all set.
Mayuri, bring the bananas!
You're making gel-banas again?
It's such a waste!
If we're stingy, we can't win against the Organization!
We don't need to win...
You know Mayushii bought the bananas, right?
I know.
This is R-E-N-G, the Phone Microwave. (name subject to change)
You can manipulate the timer here.
Please press the pound key
after the number of seconds you wish to time cook.
One, two, zero, pound.
Pretty turntable, isn't it?
It goes in the opposite direction.
Opposite?
Is it possible that there is a significant meaning there?
When you think of what's happening at the quantum level,
and you apply Hund's rules...
I'm sure there... isn't.
There isn't?
Nope.
Hasn't changed.
It doesn't get warm, and it doesn't get cold.
Mayushii's Juicy Fried Chicken #1 froze—
Well, something involving Steins Gate is definitely at work here!
That again?
Daru, don't you want to try eating—
No, I don't.
Then we'll give the honor to Mayuri.
The gel-bana was soft and squishy.
And it had no taste.
You ate it?
Mayushii?
Say, "your banana is soft and squishy."
Umm...
Your banana is soft—
Don't make her say that, pervert!
I-I'm melting...
It hasn't been ten minutes since we left the lab.
When the summer gets hot, I don't want to go any farther than Feyris's.
I wish they'd just hold it at MayQueen Nyan Nyan.
They're not going to hold a university lecture at a maid café.
If they didn't take attendance, I'd never go.
It's so cold.
I'm back to life.
A satellite fell, didn't it?
That again?
You're not going to the radio building to see it?
Probably too many onlookers to see anything anyway.
I'm reading the reports on @chan from the people who went.
"Work Temporarily Canceled."
Another giant thread?
Oh, right. Back then...
Give me your cell phone.
Why?
Just do it!
That's a violation of privacy! Not allowed—
I sent you a message!
A message about Makise Kurisu being stabbed.
Oh, the one from last week?
Last week?
It was split into three messages.
I thought it was spam!
See?
Okabe Rintarou (No Subject)
Sent on July 23rd, 12:56...
"Looks like
someone stabbed
Makise Kurisu."
See?
Last week... Let me check my sent folder.
Mayuri Re: Upa...
Daru Let's go!
Mayuri Look at this
It's not here!
Daru Let's go!
Mayuri Look at this
Mayuri Re: Don't sell it
Mayuri Look at this
Mayuri Re: Don't sell it
Feyris Re: Prophecy Song
Mayuri Re: Don't sell it
Feyris Re: Prophecy Song
Ruka Re: I made snacks
Feyris Re: Prophecy Song
Ruka Re: I made snacks
Daru Re: (No subject)
What date is today?
Mayuri Re: Don't sell it
Feyris Re: Prophecy Song
Ruka Re: I made snacks
Mayuri Look at this
Mayuri Re: Don't sell it
Feyris Re: Prophecy Song
Daru Let's go!
Mayuri Look at this
Mayuri Re: Don't sell it
Mayuri Re: Upa...
Daru Let's go!
Mayuri Look at this
The... The 28th.
What's wrong?
The message was sent to the past...
kisei sareta chikai mujihi naru, juuni no shinri nogarerarenai
We cannot escape the 12 merciless truths and the controlled oath we took
ansoku no asu wo negattara
If we wish for a tomorrow full of rest
te no naka no toutoi jishou no chihei he
to be given to the precious event horizon in our hands
toraware shi meiyaku arawareta gishou no rinkaku
the promise we made in captivity turns out to be a phantom
seimei no tenshi wa moumoku na jikan wo kizanda
The angel of life recorded a time of blindness
habatake butterfly
A flapping butterfly
kiseki no butterfly
A miraculous butterfly
anata he sasageru
I will consecrate them to you
namida no butterfly
Butterflies of tears
mabushii butterfly
Dazzling butterflies
subete ga ima kakikaerareru
All those are being rewritten