Back to the Beginning

Back to the Beginning is one of the 23 possible fifth episodes in the visual novel.

Plot
Taisuke has asked Makoto to meet his 'girlfriend' and Makoto invites him over to the roof for lunch. To his and Sekai's surprise, it's Kotonoha. Later after school, Sekai goes to hang out with her friends and Makoto goes to the train station, ending up taking a train with Kotonoha. Kotonoha explains that Taisuke grabbed her and told her go out with him and because she felt she had no choice, she accepted. Sekai, Hikari, Setsuna, and Nanami are at Pure Burger, where Nanami laments about her boyfriend preferring porn games to her before Sekai reveals Taisuke got a girlfriend. Hikari sees it and gets jealous.

The next day at lunch, Makoto decides to find Taisuke as soon as the bell rings and finds Taisuke more or less raping Kotonoha. Makoto continues to watch them, even when Hikari arrives, and they both continue watching. Makoto gets aroused and starts fondling Hikari. Before they go too far, Kotonoha and Taisuke are done and they have to stop. Makoto compliments Hikari and comments that she's a great girl. When he gets back, Sekai gives him a lunch she made with Setsuna's mom. Makoto likes it and she invites him over for the weekend because her mother is going to Paris on a business trip. She then goes to Pure Burger with Nanami and Setsuna but Hikari declines. Setsuna then calls Nanami's boyfriend and makes plans for everyone to go to his house and play his pornographic games.

Makoto runs into Kotonoha at the train station and Kotonoha says she loves and asks Makoto to break up with Sekai and go out with her. Before Makoto answers, she guesses no and says that she only asked for the sake of it. Makoto then proclaims his love for her, and Kotonoha gains a bit of hope, promising to 'defeat' Sekai in order to win Makoto back. Makoto immediately regrets saying that. Hikari, who's been eavesdropping, assumes that Kotonoha is promiscuous due to her limited information of matters.