Mei's route was the first one I went with, though in all honesty I wanted to go with a different girl's route but I found out that her route was locked until you finished one of the other girls stories...so I went with Mei.
Mei along with Nozomi are the youngest girls that work at the Cafe. Unlike Nozomi however, Mei didn't know the protag until after they were introduced to one another when she applied to get the job at the Cafe.
Mei's cheerful and straightforward attitude makes her one of the favorites of the Cafe. She's also a quick learner and can adapt easily. She is one of the most positive members of the team and through helping others she becomes a love interest to the protag.
She really starts to shine during an incident in which a little girl wonders into the shop looking to have a special cake made for her father due to him having a rough time at work. Mei takes care to keep the girl occupied until such time as the mother can come pick her up and even afterword's she keeps tabs on things.
The Cafe of course takes the little girls requests and when they actually meet the girls dad, Kanna and the protag see the butterflies or 'soul fragments' around him. They help the little girl and her father by removing the butterflies and by helping the father realize just how good of a doctor he was.
It is during this time that Mei begins to have he own troubles from a past friendship gone sour.
It is at this time that the protag and Mei begin to start to get close and their relationship blooms as our protag begins trying to help Mei with her issues with a former friend and former partner on the high school swim team. It is also during this build up that Mei lets the protag and Kanna in on a secret that she's been keeping...she can see the butterflies.
It is her special gift known as the "Bug Eating Eye" that has also been the cause of her struggles through life. Able to see the lights of soul fragments at an early age she told her parents about it as well as some friends. Over time her friends shunned her and her parents grew distant from her. It was at that point she distant herself from others and no longer spoke about her 'gift'.
It wasn't until when she was much older and joined the swim team that she started to use her gift to remove the lights from around her friends on the swim team in order to help them get over fears and stigma's. One such girl began to rely heavily on her 'gift' or 'spell' as the swim team would call it. However, eventually Mei would feel like her 'gift' was more of a curse and soon she no longer provided the 'gift' to her friends.
This small act left a divide between the team and to ease that Mei left the team.
Eventually, the two former friends and teammates have a final confrontation, it during this that Mei through mental stress begins to draw a massive swarm of butterflies which could cause a huge problem for everyone in the area. It also summons the one person to her side that she has absolute faith in in the world, the protag.
It is during this incident that she is finally able to do the one thing that she's been training to do for a short time, not only can her eye capture the butterflies but she learns how to release them as well. This means she can capture and release the butterflies at will which will help the Grim Reaper Kanna to do her job.
In the end, she makes amends with her friend and she starts to help Kanna with her work not only at the Cafe but also as a helper of the Grim Reaper. And obviously she sticks with the protag.
Mei's route is actually rather long but it isn't bad, and because of her traits the dialogue can get pretty funny between her and the protag.
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