Chapter 5 Released!

You walk away, leaving the cries and screams behind. It feels like the sounds crawl over your back, scratching your skin with their sharp claws.

Invisible ropes tie around your neck tighter and tighter. What will snap first, your patience or your mind? The chapter 5 is here! ~75K words

I updated the content warnings, so please check the list before reading the new chapter.

If you can, please replay from the start of Chapter 3. But if you can't, it's fine for now, nothing will break. I added a variable to Chapter 3, and this chapter will be missing one-two sentences of flavor text without it

The chapter contains a lot of small branches, and I couldn't run through all of them, so something might be broken somewhere. If you run into a problem, please let me know!

Routes are locked, so you can at last decide whether you'll romance or befriend a character. (You'll be able to befriend the other characters too.) For those who choose romance, I'll gradually add allo/ace options (two LIs already have them).

Now that I won't be relying on romance points, I think it will be easier for me to write rom/platonic content and for romance to begin properly developing 🙌

In this chapter you will (most on different routes):

• buy matching rings;
• visit your house;
• do gardening;
• watch family drama;
• go to the opera house;
• hold hands;
• do combat training;
• get [redacted] regardless of your route.

If someone is paying attention, then the relationship status updates almost at the end of the chapter :)

I wrote a couple of bonus stories, which you can read here if you haven't yet. The blog has some snippets too if you're interested.

If you encounter any bugs, typos, missing code, or double break lines, please send me a note in DM or in the askbox. You’d help me greatly!

If you have any thoughts or feelings after the chapter, I’d love to hear them! 💛