HelloGoodBye: True Ending

After completing the other three girls storylines in any order you like that being May, Suguri, and Natsume you are introduced to a fourth character every so shortly in May's storyline. But after the meeting, you do not see her again. However, on the fourth playthrough, you will go through the prologue as usual with some small new scenes that discuss how Kaito keeps having the same dreams when he's on the train heading to Marino.

Soon after the prologue you are given a selection of four options, each option would take you down one of the previous girl's routes OR you select the new fourth selection which is about the girl that wanted him to be her brother. As if something told him where she would be and when he makes his way to the park where he had met May in his dreams. However, he waited till nightfall and went there to find a girl named Koharu.

Koharu is only a year younger than he is, but her physical features make her appear much younger. Some tend to get her confused with an elementary schooler or at the very most a middle schooler. She appears to be very hyper and active, always smiles, and can crack the best jokes both at the best and worst of times. She tells Kaito that she wants him to be her big brother and to spend as much time with him as possible. At first, he's hesitant but something nagging him tells him to give in, so he does. 

As days go by she meets up with his friends May and Suguri, she instantly gets at odds with Suguri who she sees as the 'childhood friend' that is attempting to monopolize Kaito for her own gain. Of course, this mentality ends just about as fast as it starts and Koharu and Suguri become friends soon after.

Soon Natsume joins the group and they spend their time together learning about one another and having fun going to the cake shop and spending their days at the school with other students. It is during this time that Kaito and Koharu's relationship starts to expand and slowly becomes a bit more complicated than just 'brother and sister'. It is also this time that you start to realize there is more to Koharu than she lets on.

Eventually, she makes a few remarks that push Kaito into a psycho induced pain that cause him to almost pass out as he tries to remember his past prior to him being 10. Seeing how bad it hurts him and how deep he has repressed his memories she begins to question her own motives. She wants him to remember his past, and to remember her. But after a couple of attempts end in failure, she decides that time just isn't on her side. 

She ends up meeting up with a man that is the creator of a plan that would change the world. She has been working with him for some time and he fully aware of her powers and of Kaito's and what it was that caused them to have them. He tells her to do what she needs to do before a certain time because after that he will be taking her somewhere else.

She accepts this fate and spends her last few days with Kaito and during that time they bump their relationship from 'brother and sister' to boyfriend and girlfriend, though not openly yet. It is during this time that he is given information that something big is about to happen from the Secret Security Unit and to mobilize on active standby. It is during the sudden events of May's Father becoming President, the Commonwealth's Military Academy students performing a Coup Attempt, and other things that happen his mind is slowly able to fully grasp the situation.

Koharu ends up running away from the school and people of her class and dorm are worried, this spurs Kaito to go visit her where he knew she would be, the park at the top of the hill overlooking Marino. Upon getting there he is faced with the man that holds control over Koharu and is planning to take her away. Kaito draws his sidearm and the man does the same, they are now in a face-off. Time ticks by and the two realize it is a stalemate. For Kaito, there was no true victory outcome but he knew that he could have at least ended it for both of them leaving Koharu alive. But the man finally sighs and puts his gun away and tells them to do what they want, his plan was already done.

Koharu and Kaito return to his place where the story finally comes together. Kaito was the son of a world-famous doctor that through experiments had developed something that would change the world. He called it Koji, but it was artificially created and mass-produced stem cells. This research provided the benefits of both the advancement of medicine while also no longer having to deal with the religious and social stigma of using Stem Cells. Despite all the good it could do, there were those on both sides, the radicals, that wanted it for their military operations.

Koharu was his father's test patient with a disease that should have killed her but due to the artificial Stem Cells, she was able to recover. However there were side effects to the Koji, it would leave the patient with white hair and in the case of Koharu, it gave her a unique ability, it turned her brain into a supercomputer able to use logic, reason, past and present events, adaptation, and implementation to calculate different paths of different people. 

It also engrained these events into her memory giving her very clear, vivid, and everlasting memories. Not only does she see these events play out in her mind she feels them, her senses are pulled into her predictions. In essence, when she was to be shot in a prediction she would feel the shot in her body.

At some point, Kaito was also injured during an incursion by Commonwealth forces that were attempting to secure the Koji. In this incursion Kaito's father had Kaito take Koharu to the school nearby and to stay with her. However, Kaito returned and while he was saved his father was killed in the incursion, and all his research data was destroyed. With no samples left and neither side knows how to duplicate the research, Koji was no longer viable. The governments of all three factions, the Commonwealth, United Provinces of Japan, and Marino all declared the incident never happened and all information about the research was deemed false.

Kaito also gaining the Koji was a minor difference however, he didn't get the full treatment meaning that he was 'imperfect'. His hair had gone white, and he had the ability to use the prediction method, but in turn, for that, he would be unable to remember his past. Because of this, the other three scenarios of the game were simply predictions. One of the many paths he could have gone on. After all, this comes to light and you learn the past of Kaito with Koharu and his time in Marino he decides that he can't leave her and that they will be together from then on. 

The story progress telling you that he and Koharu both finish school and upon graduating they are married. The other girls go about their own lives though they still maintain contact. You find out that the man you met was the son of one of the leaders that carried out the incursion into Kaito's father lab and he was the one blamed for its failure and executed. His son spent the rest of his life after leaving the Commonwealth Military to create a scenario that would end the Commonwealth. He had put all this together using Koharu to determine the right path he needed to use to make the Unification of Japan complete. Do the ends justify the means? That is a question that everyone at some point asks. 

The end of the Visual Novel touches on how Koharu and Kaito now have two children and return to Marino to visit the grave of Kaito's father and mother every year. The effects of the Koji at some point begin to fade, their hair color returns and they can no longer use the prediction method much if at all. Also, Koharu's memory is no longer able to contain everything so she is able to forget things at times. 

I can say I really wasn't expecting this type of ending, which actually to me made this VN more interesting. Not only does it have a certain fantasy aspect and alternate history and world view, but it also has comedy, drama, and some interesting interpretation of the psychology and sociological aspects of things. The graphics are not what I would say are top of the line but they are not bad either. The voice and music are well done and there are little in the way of grammar errors in the English version which is great as many of these translated games end up with some minor grammar errors. 

I highly recommend this Visual Novel for just about anyone. Though remember this game has an 18+ patch you can get off the Publisher site for free. This adds of course the H-Scenes and special graphic sets.