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Kurenai

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Overview

Kurenai is the love android at Cyber-Sects, the Synthetic Companion Matching Facility in Future Prime Sector. Her red-and-white chassis, glowing red eyes and dry humor are easy to recognize. Her route combines an introduction, ten portrait-selected story scenes, three illustrated Heart-to-Hearts, three dates, Jewelry gifts, skill lessons and a hacking-unlocked private interaction.
This guide gives the complete activity sequence and rewards while leaving the later investigation and her final decisions for the story itself.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 28 synthetic years / Future / Neutral
Location Synthetic Companion Matching Facility, Prime Sector
Schedule All day, every day
Favorite stats Charm 85; Technology 85; Stamina 90
Special relationship skill Seduction
Ordinary gift Jewelry, at Acquaintance
Teaches Emotional Bonding; Pleasure Arts; Intimate Communication
One-time stat reward Reading the Script: Communication +1
Personal H2Hs Service Mask; Kept Partition; Counterfeit Love
Dates Recharge Station; Skygarden; Memory Arcade
Private Access requirement Successful Hack SECTS Protocol
Favorite stat thresholds improve ordinary affection gains, and Seduction doubles her relationship multiplier. Her lessons teach other skills; they do not automatically teach Seduction. Rewards below are base affection before modifiers unless marked direct or final.
  1. Visit the Synthetic Companion Matching Facility for Welcome to Cyber-Sects. Talk works from Stranger, three times per day.
  2. At Known, choose Conversion Audit from her portrait after the introduction.
  3. At Acquaintance, choose Unpaid Attention, then begin giving Jewelry, up to three times daily. Paid-version players can also learn Emotional Bonding if they meet its stat requirement.
  4. At Friend, choose Premium Profile, then complete Service Mask. Reading the Script, her other two lessons, and Recharge Station Date are optional activities with separate requirements.
  5. At Close Friend, choose Retention Loop after Service Mask, then Warranty Clause. Skygarden Date opens separately after Retention Loop, 8 AM–4 PM.
  6. At Crush, choose Private Partition, then complete the distinct H2H Kept Partition.
  7. At Romantic, choose Unprofitable Refusal after Kept Partition.
  8. At Intimate, choose First Unscripted Choice, then complete Counterfeit Love. Memory Arcade Date is separately available after First Unscripted Choice, noon–10 PM.
  9. At In Love, choose The Pattern Beneath after Counterfeit Love, then Choose the Signal.
Most route scenes are selected manually from Kurenai's portrait. Re-entering the room alone does not start Conversion Audit or its later scenes. H2H completions and story-scene completions are separate requirements; higher affection does not replace either.

Schedule and Daily Affection

Kurenai's portrait is available 24 hours a day, every day at the Synthetic Companion Matching Facility. There is no introduction-completion flag on that schedule.
Activity Minimum stage Cost Base affection / daily allowance
Talk to Kurenai Stranger 15 minutes 1; three times per day
Give Jewelry Acquaintance 10 minutes; one Jewelry 10; three times per day
Talk's current handler awards 1, despite the zero-point placeholder in its action definition. Talk and Jewelry have separate daily counters. The full unlocked allowance is 75 minutes and three Jewelry, for 33 base affection before modifiers. Over-limit interactions record −1 base affection; wait for the next game day.

Introduction and Complete Story Route

The introduction triggers once, automatically, at the facility without an affection prerequisite.
Automatic scene Location Requirements Base reward
Welcome to Cyber-Sects Synthetic Companion Matching Facility No additional prerequisite; midnight–midnight 3


The following activities all start from Kurenai's facility portrait. They complete once. The H2Hs have five choice rounds; their full answer tables are in the next section. Calm gains are listed separately from costs where applicable.
Step Portrait activity Requirements Cost Completion affection before choices
1 Conversion Audit Known+; Welcome to Cyber-Sects completed 45 minutes, 10 energy, 5 calm 6
2 Unpaid Attention Acquaintance+; Conversion Audit completed 45 minutes, 10 energy 7
3 Premium Profile Friend+; Unpaid Attention completed 60 minutes, 15 energy, 5 calm 8
4 Service Mask Friend+; Premium Profile completed 75 minutes, 20 energy, 10 calm H2H choice total
5 Retention Loop Close Friend+; Service Mask completed; Premium Profile completed 60 minutes, 15 energy, 10 calm 9
6 Warranty Clause Close Friend+; Retention Loop completed 60 minutes, 10 energy, 15 calm 10
7 Private Partition Crush+; Warranty Clause completed 75 minutes, 20 energy, 10 calm 11
8 Kept Partition Crush+; Private Partition completed 90 minutes, 20 energy, 15 calm H2H choice total
9 Unprofitable Refusal Romantic+; Kept Partition completed; Private Partition completed 75 minutes, 20 energy, 20 calm 12
10 First Unscripted Choice Intimate+; Unprofitable Refusal completed 90 minutes, 25 energy, 15 calm 14
11 Counterfeit Love Intimate+; First Unscripted Choice completed 90 minutes, 20 energy H2H choice total
12 The Pattern Beneath In Love+; Counterfeit Love completed; First Unscripted Choice completed 90 minutes, 25 energy, 30 calm 15
13 Choose the Signal In Love+; The Pattern Beneath completed 120 minutes, 30 energy, 25 calm 18


Counterfeit Love gives 10 Calm, alongside its 90-minute and 20-Energy cost. The other listed route activities consume their configured Calm amounts.
Service Mask disappears after Retention Loop, Kept Partition after Unprofitable Refusal, and Counterfeit Love after The Pattern Beneath; their route requirements already make completing them necessary before those later scenes. Their once-only completion records are distinct from the corresponding story flags.

Story Choice Rewards

Each story scene has one choice. The highest-reward categories below include the fixed completion affection. All offered choices converge on that scene's completion; the best-point answer is not an extra route unlock.
Story scene Highest-reward category Choice bonus Best total base affection
Welcome to Cyber-Sects Flirty 3 6
Conversion Audit Caring/Flirty 3 9
Unpaid Attention Flirty 4 11
Premium Profile Flirty 4 12
Retention Loop Caring/Flirty 4 13
Warranty Clause Caring/Flirty 4 14
Private Partition Flirty 5 16
Unprofitable Refusal Caring/Flirty 5 17
First Unscripted Choice Caring/Flirty 5 19
The Pattern Beneath Caring/Flirty 5 20
Choose the Signal Caring/Flirty 6 24


Later scene descriptions and investigation answers are intentionally left out of this walkthrough. These category labels are sufficient to choose the largest affection reward without recounting the revelations.

Heart-to-Hearts

All three H2Hs start from the facility portrait at any hour and complete once. There is no extra evening gate on Counterfeit Love's action even though the dialogue describes a quiet late visit.
H2H Requirements Cost / Calm change Best standard choice total Optional round-2 improvement
Service Mask Friend; Premium Profile completed 75 minutes; 20 Energy; 10 Calm 64 base Technology 35: 14 instead of 12; best total 66
Kept Partition Crush; Private Partition completed 90 minutes; 20 Energy; 15 Calm 72 base Technology 45: 15 instead of 13; best total 74
Counterfeit Love Intimate; First Unscripted Choice completed 90 minutes; 20 Energy; Calm +10 91 base Empathy skill: 18 instead of 16; best total 93
The optional special answers affect the next round's presentation and improve affection; they are not required to complete the H2H or unlock the following story scene.

Service Mask

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 That is honest, in a very unsettling way. 10
2 What do you prefer when no one is buying the answer? 12
3 I am asking you, not the tier. 13
4 Maybe outside the loop is where you start. 14
5 I hope you keep the error. 15


Kept Partition

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 You did not have to show me this. 12
2 Maybe part of you wanted somewhere private. 13
3 What did you want to remember? 15
4 I want the version of you that is harder to explain. 16
5 Thank you for trusting me with it. 16


Counterfeit Love

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 Surface behavior is not the whole truth. 15
2 You are not selling me singular. You are asking me a question. 16
3 Choice is where it becomes yours. 18
4 Then choose it with me. 20
5 Stay close with her. 22


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.
For Service Mask, the Technology 35 answer in round 2 is the observation about the markers ranking your reactions. For Kept Partition, the Technology 45 answer identifies a protected local archive. For Counterfeit Love, the Empathy answer addresses her fear about the feeling. Each replaces the standard answer in that round.
Several standard answers tie for the maximum. In Service Mask, either highest 10-point answer in round 1 and either 14/15-point highest answer in rounds 4/5 works. In Kept Partition, round 1 has two 12-point best answers. In Counterfeit Love, rounds 1–5 each have two answers tied at 15, 16, 18, 20 and 22 respectively.
The H2Hs have no separate NPC intimacy XP or player Erotic Art XP reward configured. With the player's Romantic skill, each completed H2H adds 25 final affection after the relationship calculation. This is an affection bonus, not experience.

Dates

Start all three dates from Kurenai's facility portrait, at their stated start times. Each date completes once. They are optional branches and do not replace the story H2Hs.
Date Requirements Start time Cost / Calm change Completion affection
Recharge Station Date — Love, Without the Risk Friend Any hour 120 minutes; $100; 20 Energy; Calm +10 5 base
Skygarden Date Close Friend; Retention Loop completed 8 AM–4 PM 120 minutes; $80; 30 Energy; Calm +5 8 base
Memory Arcade Date Intimate; First Unscripted Choice completed Noon–10 PM 120 minutes; $150; 35 Energy; 10 Calm 10 base
Date / round Caring Funny Flirty
Recharge Station, 1 3 5 4
Recharge Station, 2 5 3 4
Recharge Station, 3 3 2 4
Skygarden, 1 5 4 4
Skygarden, 2 5 4 5
Skygarden, 3 5 4 5
Memory Arcade, 1 5 4 5
Memory Arcade, 2 6 4 5
Memory Arcade, 3 6 4 5
The best totals including completion are 19 base for Recharge Station (Funny → Caring → Flirty), 23 base for Skygarden (Caring → Caring/Flirty → Caring/Flirty) and 27 base for Memory Arcade (Caring/Flirty → Caring → Caring).
Recharge Station Date has no Premium Profile, Service Mask or hacking prerequisite. Skygarden needs Retention Loop but not Warranty Clause. Memory Arcade needs First Unscripted Choice but not Counterfeit Love.

Reading the Script

At Friend and Communication 50, choose Reading the Script from her portrait. It takes 30 minutes, completes once, and awards Communication +1 and 8 direct Kurenai affection.
The action definition lists Energy and Calm effects, but the current one-time-reward handler does not apply those effects. The implemented reward therefore does not deduct the listed 10 Energy or 5 Calm. It does not require a route H2H or teach a skill.

Skill Lessons

All three lessons start from Kurenai's facility portrait and require the paid version. They are available only if you do not already know the skill. Their affection rewards use the ordinary relationship multiplier.
Lesson Requirements Cost Reward
Emotional Bonding Acquaintance; Charm 16 180 minutes; $250; 35 Energy; 25 Calm Emotional Bonding skill; 10 base affection
Pleasure Arts Friend; Ability 20 200 minutes; $350; 50 Energy; 30 Calm Pleasure Arts skill; 15 base affection
Intimate Communication Friend; Charm 18 180 minutes; $350; 40 Energy; 30 Calm Intimate Communication skill; 15 base affection
The lessons do not require completion of her personal story scenes. Their configured skill is learned before the lesson's affection calculation, but none of these is Kurenai's special Seduction relationship skill.

Hack SECTS Protocol and Private Access

Private Access is a separate facility activity unlocked by a successful Hack SECTS Protocol. It has no ordinary Kurenai affection-stage prerequisite and is not a completion prerequisite for her personal story route.
  1. Learn System Hacking. One lesson is at the Present University's Computer Lab, requiring Technology 30, 220 minutes, $350, 60 Energy and 60 Calm. Other game sources of the skill also work.
  2. At the Synthetic Companion Matching Facility, choose the location activity Hack SECTS Protocol. Each attempt costs 30 minutes and 15 Energy.
  3. The success chance is Technology −25 +5 for AI Programming +5 for Cybernetics, clamped to 5%–95%. Those two bonus skills are optional; System Hacking is required to attempt it.
  4. Success permanently unlocks the private facility action for that save. Failure ejects you to the Future player lab in Fringe Zone; return to try again. The current failure handler relocates you rather than starting a combat encounter.
  5. Choose Private Access from Kurenai's portrait. It normally costs 60 minutes and 40 Energy, gives 60 base Kurenai affection, and has a once-per-day animation allowance.
Private Access's animation has no additional NPC intimacy XP or player Erotic Art XP award configured. The action does not have a separate paid-version or high-affection requirement in its current definition. Its reward handler checks the animation's registration and daily allowance before granting affection.

Troubleshooting

Problem What to check
The route has stopped after meeting Kurenai Choose Conversion Audit from her portrait at Known; it is a manual scene
Retention Loop is missing Close Friend, Premium Profile and Service Mask completed
Kept Partition is missing Crush and the distinct Private Partition story scene completed
Unprofitable Refusal is missing Romantic and Kept Partition completed
The final story activities are missing In Love, First Unscripted Choice and Counterfeit Love completed, then select The Pattern Beneath before Choose the Signal
A date is missing Its own stage, story flag, start-time window and once-only completion
Private Access is missing despite high affection Successful Hack SECTS Protocol; affection alone does not replace the hack
A lesson is missing Paid version, stated stat and stage; skill not already learned

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