“…eh, a good B I’d say. Looks like a cute pet overall…”

“…who?”

"Mh? Oh yeah, thanks", she said, grabbing it and looking at her a bit amused.

"Mh...though...you know what? I kinda think your shirt would look better on me..."

"Oh...naughty to abuse this for your business? Mh...but since you only said browsing, I guess I could go..."

She smirked at him.

"What kinda shop is it, anyway?"

"Depends...are you going to annoy me with too many One-Liners? I tend to get sloppy, when I'm not sure, who I should fight...", she said...though her smirk showed, she wasn't actually hostile here...

//Oh great. who deleted recently in my DMs...

She nodded: "Sounds good. Shall we go then? I could use some spice tonight..."

Smirking, she opened a portal, and would walk through it...he better follow fast!

She giggled a bit.

"Van Nuys is just a neighbourhood of LA...the place is...exotic, to say the least, though. Specialized for Aliens, Demons, and the otherwise unworldly...let's just go to Taco Bell..."

"Creeps all around, really...people have been asking me to see mine as well at times..."

"Quite forward, I like it. Mh...I usually go to the Sardine, but...for a full meal...there is a specialty bar down in Van Nuys that serves exotic stuff for exotic folk...but really, any Taco Bell is perfect."

//Read up on it. As far as Wikipedia said, everything but the Ending was universally praised as good...so no wonder you liked it.

Still. That's quite a choice to be made...

//No need to continue then. Really. Boy is an absolute desaster...and the moment he finally does the right thing and owns up to it...only for the girl to swoop in anyway and save his butt, by also preventing his growth...

//I remember people complaining that they didn't become a couple after the series is over.

I genuinely don't know why she didn't call the police after he broke her chain-lock.

Ergh...dropping the series...not worth it...

//exploring Manga series through the Kodansha App, and...

I'm utterly disappointed by Rent-a-Girlfriend. The main character is such an asshole, not even remotely likeable...Chapter 1 was rough, Chapter 2 was a bit better, but Chapter 3...

Talk about making your own wrakness anyone elses problem.

Or hidden and a new one made. Or he puts a fake console into the room, perhaps in front of the actual one.

I just really think Abel was actually a real person and Caine was doing insane Damage Control at the end.

the latter a recreation by an AI like Caine, who forgot the background and gave a simplified ending.

In other words: Abels plan and Caines resolution are different. Caine had hijacked Abels plan and instead put a fake ending up.

"The main console is behind the bookcase"

Which could be moved.

//Additionally:

Abels plan was to use the fact, that the game and pods were connected, and turn them both off at the same time. Yet at the console in Caines office, there was a direct "press this button to end the game"-button. For me, this screams like the former was an actual plan by a human, and

//It's fun! Not too wimpy, some heart in it...I like it.

//Shipping could be fun, actually, but it would need some buildup^^

Terry

Stolen-

"It's kind of telling, how there are as much jobs to collect vigilantes like the Punisher, as there are to help him combat a threat. People want the moral high-ground...yet fall back to relying on morally dubious characters, whenever it gets tough..."

Caine from effectively helping (much)

In short, my guesses for Epsiodes 8 and 9:

- Someone in the Gang finding threads, that the Abel-Story might be true. Potentially Kinger.
- Caine starting to have a crisis, feeling his entire world collapse, and starting to work against his programming.
- Bubble dropping his mask and preventing

has more and more problems keeping him in check.

So...these are my ideas on where Episode 8 might be heading.

Episode 7 shows him questioning the "Macroverse", and mentioning being locked out of it, so he's openly wondering about where the gang came from, and trying to establish a connection to it. And...there are enough implications that Bubble might be more than he lets on at times - Caine certainly

prison for them, if it were planned by Caine.

I believe the gang was actually close to something last time, and Caine did a lot of Damage Control.

And I think he may actually evolve into an ally, when he actually starts working against his programming and...actually tries to do good.