Let's Just Be Friends

Let's Just Be Friends is one of the 22 possible routes for episode 5 in the visual novel. It is one of three episodes to follow Bonfire for Two/The Festival, the other two being Mind and Body and Anything You Want. In this episode, Makoto decides to break off his affair with Sekai and go back to being just friends.

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To get Let's Just Be Friends for chapter 5, the only requirement is that the bar favor Sekai by the time Sekai and Makoto go to the roof to discuss their relationship. If this condition is met, Sekai will point out that being the girl Makoto sleeps with behind Kotonoha's back makes her feel guilty, and she doesn't just want to be a substitute for sex with Kotonoha. Makoto unexpectedly agrees and apologizes for putting Sekai in that position. Sekai tries to backpedal, but Makoto makes up his mind to break off their affair and just be friends. He leaves with Kotonoha, and the episode ends with Let's Just Be Friends.

If the bar favors Kotonoha at the rooftop scene, the dialogue plays out much the same, however, when Sekai backpedals from her statements, she convinces Makoto to have sex with her, which gets witnessed by Kotonoha. From here, depending on decisions made, you will get either Mind and Body or Anything You Want instead.

Interestingly, while the state of the bar determines entirely whether the Let's Just Be Friends route is taken or not, the resulting story yields the opposite of the expected result, as a bar that favors Sekai will result in Makoto breaking off their affair and leaving with Kotonoha. This route also shortens the chapter by quite a bit compared to the alternate routes.

Let's Just Be Friends merges into the same path as Mind and Body, with a slightly different scene to begin chapter 6.