World War III.
By 2036,
it will have resulted in 5.7 billion casualties worldwide.
And this is what starts it.
Huh? What is it?
It's some kind of robot?
Does it transform and stuff?
A time machine.
Seriously?
I knew you'd recognize it, Uncle.
Then that makes this easy.
Come with me.
I refuse.
Okarin?
I came here from the Alpha world line.
Over the past three weeks,
I jumped world lines again and again,
sacrificing Kurisu in order to return to the Beta world line.
I won't let it all be for naught!
Kurisu?
Wasn't that the name of the scientist
who was stabbed at the Radio Kaikan?
Okabe Rintarou,
what if I told you that the way to avoid World War III
is, on July 28th, 2010,
to prevent Makise Kurisu's death?
What do you mean?
I don't know the details,
but I have one mission:
To save Makise Kurisu
and to go to the one world line unaffected by the attractor field,
the Steins Gate!
Even the viewpoints of life and its meaningless proof
are nothing to you and cannot relieve your boredom
The foolish people of that race, acting as leaders
have written infantile theorems that stink of conceit
Both our infinite love and dreams of that beyond the sky
are granted freedoms of the imagination
The finite cruelly allows time to flow on
as I head towards my choice to renounce tomorrow
Hacking to the Gate
I mustn't pretend that I've made no promises
with my friends back in those brighter days
So now I will deceive time itself with my remaining tricks,
as I am a solitary observer with no more doubt
Open the
Missing Link
Steins Gate?
The architects of this plan were
my father and your future self.
None of it is more than a hypothesis.
It's possible for the theory to be wrong,
for there to be no Steins Gate world line,
but I'm going regardless.
I'll bet on the chance that a shining future's waiting for me.
If you're coming with me,
then take my hand.
Um,
Mayushii didn't really understand any of that,
but if this person,
this Kurisu, is important to you,
shouldn't you try to help her?
World War III sounds like one of your crazy delusions.
No one else could handle it.
I don't care about the 5.7 billion people in the future...
but...
Thank you.
Let's go.
Two people can get in it?
Of course!
This is my dad's masterpiece.
Okarin!
Leave your phone.
It might interfere with your phone in the past.
I'll be back.
Good luck.
This is a time machine.
Yeah,
I stopped in 1975 and 2000.
It's working fine,
but it's running out of fuel.
Wait. It can go from past to future?
Of course it can.
It's a time machine.
I see.
Is that because we're in a different world line now?
Sit down.
We'll head to just before noon on July 28th.
We can't change location,
so if we arrive too early, it'll spread panic at the Radio Kaikan,
possibly affecting Makise Kurisu's actions.
Your first time, the Gs are pretty tough.
Get ready.
Okarin...
What is this?
These always show up.
I guess they're like fragments of time.
Pretty, huh?
Let's go!
W-Wait.
I think I'm going to throw up.
What a wimp.
Hurry!
Don't let your other self see you.
It'll cause a serious time paradox.
How long until the stabbing?
Twenty minutes or so, I guess.
I'll prepare the time machine.
You protect her, Uncle.
Stop calling me that.
July 28th.
On the day I saw Kurisu lying in a pool of blood,
I came with Mayuri to see
Doctor Nakabachi's press conference.
I heard a noise on the roof.
That's right. After that, Mayuri went to the seventh-floor Upa machines.
Oh, no!
You called me here for this?
There aren't many left of this series, and Mayushii's...
Oh well.
I'll take the back stairs to the eighth floor.
It's a metal... a metal Upa!
Is it rare?
Extremely!
Now that I'm here...
I'm sorry.
K-Kurisu?
H-How do you know my name?
Kurisu is alive.
Have we met somewhere?
Kurisu...
Are you listening—
What's wrong?
Answer me.
I...
I'm... trying...
Doctor Nakabachi's press conference in Hall 8 will be opening now.
Wait!
Wait a second!
In the handouts, you can read about the time machine's basic design.
I will use this conference as an opportunity to discuss the fundamental theory behind it.
The operation notes said that you'd be able to identify Makise Kurisu.
Can you?
Yeah.
Also, it's dangerous to take her outside.
If we don't figure out who stabbed her,
we can't change her fate.
Just like Mayuri?
Doctor!
What is it?
You know exactly what!
What is this "time machine theory" of yours?
Kerr Black Holes?
World lines?
You stole all of this from John Titor!
Kurisu will be stabbed right here soon.
Is she really going to be here?
Wait! Maybe she was stabbed elsewhere and brought here.
Yeah... That's possible!
Kurisu?
So it does happen here.
What's she reading?
A time machine?
Is that why she's the key to changing world lines?
What do you want?
Daddy, I wanted you to read this.
Daddy?
Doctor Nakabachi?
You contacted me for the first time in seven years.
You asked me to come to your press conference, right?
That was my inspiration.
Wait. So Kurisu's dad is...
So I thought I could use it to theorize a time machine.
I wanted to hear your ideas.
If this is accepted, you can use it
as revenge for everyone who kicked you out—
I wasn't kicked out!
I got sick of them and left.
Sorry.
It's not bad.
Really?
If you're okay with it,
I thought we could put both of our names on the paper
because you inspired me—
Don't be stupid.
Leave!
I'll publish this paper under my name.
Wait!
You wouldn't steal it, right, Daddy?
I never thought you'd resort to tha—
Shut up!
How dare you call it stealing?!
Why are you so smart?
A girl shouldn't be smarter than her father!
If it weren't for you, I would've been considered smart!
If it weren't for you...
You're that kid from earlier.
So that's it?
You were plotting to ruin my conference together, huh?
I see.
So that's it.
Daddy!
I'll protect her!
How dare you insult me?
Why, you...
Stop it, Daddy!
Please!
Don't even speak to me!
Oh, shit!
What do you know?
You don't know how I feel.
You don't know how I've been humiliated
and the hell I've been through!
Papa...
If it weren't for you...
Don't...
If it weren't for you...
Don't do it!
Kurisu...
K-Kurisu!
Fools.
This is the perfect end for you.
I'm sorry for getting you involved.
Why?
Because he's my dad,
I wanted him to accept me.
That's all.
Kurisu...
I'm scared...
I... I don't want to die.
I don't want to die.
I don't...
Kurisu...
Kurisu!
They're back already!
Okarin!
Okarin, that blood...
It's all right.
It isn't his.
I was the one who killed Kurisu.
Okarin?
I know it hurts, but you can't give up yet.
We have enough fuel to go back one more time.
Shut up!
Nothing will change!
The attractor field convergence will kill her all over again.
All... All of it...
It's all my fault...
5.7 billion lives hang in the balance!
You have to save Makise Kurisu and change the World Line!
It's impossible...
Why?
It was just one failure!
Just one...?
Don't give me that shit!
Just how many times do you think I failed?
Just how many dozens of times do you think I failed?
I know how this will go...
And how absurd this whole thing is...
I'm well aware of the cruel ending that awaits...
I knew...
I knew this would happen...
I'm tired...
I'm so tired...
If that's how you want to be, I'll have to slap some sense into you—
Stop!
You shouldn't force him.
But there's no way he can change the future like this!
Why? Why are you making Okarin shoulder the future by himself?
That's too big a burden.
Uncle Okarin is the only one who can observe the world lines.
Okarin never asked for that.
And even if you tell him to try one more time, he'll just get hurt again.
Thinking one person alone can change the future... That just isn't possible.
Kuri...su... Kurisu... Kuri...
Hey, Okarin...
You don't have to struggle anymore.
It's okay to cry, Okarin.
Mayushii is here with you.
The cicadas are all gone now.
Been a while since we've been to this park too.
Okarin's been pretty busy since summer vacation ended, after all.
I went to my first mixer recently, y'know.
Is that right?
Speaking of.
Hello.
Oh, what's going on?
Tomorrow? That's pretty sudden.
I'm sure I'd just be there to even the numbers out.
Why not? I'll go.
Later.
I never expected college life to be this busy.
Mayushii...
Mayushii is so happy to see Okarin again after so long.
Hey, Okarin.
Why don't you stop by the lab?
You haven't visited for a while, so it's been really quiet...
Alright.
Then it's settled, Okarin.
Yeah. Well, see you later.
Yep!
Mayuri is safely here with us.
Not this town... Not myself... Nothing at all... has changed.
With my vision confined, I am unable to escape the unforgiving grasp of the Twelve
As I wish for a restful tomorrow
I walk towards the precious event horizon in my hands
The pledge we made in captivity was a falsehood
This world of life blindly allows time to flow
Spread your wings butterfly
You miraculous butterfly
I confer this unto you
Butterfly of tears
Radiant butterfly
All will now be rewritten
Nice to meet you. I'm Makise Kurisu.
I hope we can get along.
It seems fate has decided to converge once again, Hououin Kyouma.
I guess I have to fight either way in the end. Pray for my good fortune.
El Psy Kongroo.