Miyoshi Yuiko
4th December. Asakura Souta arrives at Tougen Island, as he has been doing every year. Every year, he comes to Tougen Island during his holidays to visit and have fun with his friend Rokkaku Gorou and cousins Miyoshi Yuiko and Futaba, as well as to help out at his aunt's pension for some extra pocket money. This year was to be the same as every other year.
However, due to a little misunderstanding, Yuiko accidentally confesses her feelings for him ever since they were kids. Amidst the misunderstanding, Souta finds that he has feelings for Yuiko too, and finally they confess to each other again and become a couple.
The happy days were not to last though, as Yuiko eventually digs up an artifact of their childhood days: a simple card game they were addicted to back then that Souta and Gorou appear to fear. A chance run in with a group of three trouble-making tourists reveals Yuiko's forgotten past: 8 years ago when they were kids Souta, Gorou and Yuiko were assaulted by a similar group of three tourists looking for sexual entertainment. As Souta and Gorou were beaten up by the tourists, and Yuiko about to be raped, a giant spider surfaces from the woods and captures the three tourists, dragging them deep into the woods. Yuiko soon suffers a slight trauma resulting from the assult, but Souta and Gorou both remember the creature: it resembles Yuiko's favorite card from the card game they used to play often as kids, the powerful "8-legged Darkness", with the effect of "removing up to 3 targets from the playing field every turn".
It is later reported that the three trouble-making tourists they ran into earlier have turned up missing too. Subsequently, they are confronted by a woman, Niki Yuubari, who reveals she is of the secret service and knows of the incident 8 years ago, as well as confirming the suspicions of Souta and Gorou: the giant spider was indeed created by Yuiko as a result of the Island's System granting her wish for "someone to protect her" back then. Faced with these facts, as well as Yuiko's resurfacing memories, Souta and Gorou are forced to spill the beans on what they know to Yuiko.
The friends, along with the help of Niki, decide to take down and stop the giant spider once and for all. Niki comes up with a theory that if the giant spider was from the card game, the creature should bend to the rules of the card game as well. True enough, as the four draw out the giant spider and begin a round of the card game, the giant spider stands still, awaiting Yuiko's turn. Souta and Gorou utilize the tricks they often used in their childhood to cheat and attempt to draw a card, the "Silver Slingshot", able to "instantly kill any bug type creatures". As the giant spider slowly takes down Gorou and Niki, Souta remembers the "8-legged Darkness"'s final effect: "after removing its 9th target, it will be destroyed along with its summoner". Souta manages to acquire the "Silver Slingshot" at the last moment and destroy the giant spider before it can claim its final victim and Yuiko.
However, this sends Yuiko into a coma, as she continues to have nightmares while in her coma of the day 8 years ago. In a final act of desperation, Souta, remembering the story Niki told them about the System, makes a wish to be strong enough to protect Yuiko again. This throws him into her nightmare, as he summons enough courage in himself to stand up to their attackers and rescue Yuiko from her nightmare. As Souta awakens from the dream, he finds Yuiko awake from her coma in tears, thanking Souta for coming to save her.
Forward a few years, Souta has graduated from school and has permanently taken over his aunt's pension business together with Yuiko, as they live happily ever after, surrounded by his friends and his love...
My favorite route as it starts off nicely, pulls off the "always loved you but never had the courage to confess" scene beautifully, has plenty of good friendship and fun playtime scenes, culminates in an awesome boss fight that reminds me of E×E's combat scenes, and then ends without throwing away everyone but the girl. Every other path, it's like the world has ended and they're the only ones left dammit.
Or maybe it's just because I like friendship stories over love stories. I cried the most on the Little Busters path in Little Busters! anyway; even more so than how much I cried for the other 5 girls' paths put together.
Now Playing: Rapids by Famishin, 夏空カナタ (Natsuzora Kanata) OST (a.k.a. Boss Fight BGM)
EDIT (25/05/2009, 04:12 AM): Refitted with spoiler tags.
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