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Kuro

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Overview

Kuro operates the Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center in Future Prime Sector. She has long black hair with violet highlights, an operator headset and a dry view of her work. Her current relationship route includes eleven automatic encounters, one first-performance scene, three illustrated Heart-to-Hearts, two dates, Book gifts and a Perception reward.
The walkthrough explains the practical route while leaving the later broadcast investigation and her final decisions to the story.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 26 / Future / Neutral
Location Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center, Prime Sector
Schedule 10 AM–10 PM, every day
Favorite stats Technology 80; Creativity 70; Perception 75
Special relationship skill Music Production
Ordinary gift Book, at Known
Performance Acquaintance; Authored Signal; at least one composed song
One-time stat reward Frequency Analysis: Perception +1
H2Hs Silence After the Song; The Hurt Problem; Constant Frequency
Dates Neon Bazaar; Glass Reef
Favorite stat thresholds improve ordinary affection gains, and Music Production doubles her relationship multiplier. Her own performance does not teach that skill. Rewards below are base affection before modifiers unless marked direct or final.
  1. Visit the Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center, 10 AM–10 PM, for Optimal Misery. Talk works from Stranger, up to three times per day.
  2. Reach Acknowledged and return for Baseline Error. At Known, return for Noise Between Notes and begin giving Books, up to three times daily.
  3. Add at least one composed song to your song list. At Acquaintance, return after Noise Between Notes for Authored Signal.
  4. Choose Perform for Kuro from her portrait and select a composed song. The first successful performance starts Private Performance. At Friend, return afterward for The Afterimage. Frequency Analysis and Neon Bazaar Date are optional branches.
  5. At Close Friend, return after The Afterimage for Control Group. Choose Silence After the Song, then return for The Compliance Chord.
  6. At Crush, return after The Compliance Chord for Open Channel. Glass Reef Date opens separately after it, with an effective portrait start window of 10 AM–6 PM.
  7. At Romantic, choose The Hurt Problem after Open Channel and the first H2H. Return afterward for The Cost of Feeling.
  8. At Intimate, return after The Cost of Feeling for Counter-Frequency. Complete Constant Frequency after Counter-Frequency and The Hurt Problem.
  9. At In Love, return after Counter-Frequency and Constant Frequency for Constant Signal.
Authored Signal cannot appear without a composed song. Learning music skills or listening to music alone does not fulfill that requirement. The three H2Hs also have their own completion records; affection alone does not replace them.

Schedule and Daily Affection

Start Kuro's portrait actions at the Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center, 10 AM–10 PM, every day. Her portrait schedule has no extra introduction or performance requirement.
Activity Requirements Cost Base affection / daily allowance
Talk to Kuro Stranger 15 minutes 1; three times per day
Give Book Known 10 minutes; one Book 7; three times per day
Perform for Kuro Acquaintance; Authored Signal; a composed song 60 minutes; 25 Energy 6 from a successful performance; once per day
Talk's handler awards 1, despite the action's zero-point placeholder. Talk, Book and performance have separate daily counters. Once unlocked, three talks, three Books and one performance cost 135 minutes, three Books and 25 Energy, for 30 base affection before modifiers and before the first performance's one-time story reward.
Over-limit talks, gifts or performances record −1 base affection. Repeated performance dialogue changes the flavor of the visit without repeating the first-performance plot's completion reward.

Composing a Song for the Route

If you already have a song in your composed song list, it qualifies. Otherwise, a straightforward preparation path is:
Preparation Where / effective lesson time Requirements Cost
Learn Song Writing Bards Guild, Medieval Kings Demesne; 1–9 PM Creativity 25; skill not already learned 220 minutes; $300; 60 Energy; 60 Calm
Learn Music Production Music Studio, Present Downtown; noon–11 PM Technology 25; skill not already learned 180 minutes; $500; 50 Energy; 50 Calm
Compose Song Music Studio; noon–11 PM Both Song Writing and Music Production; Creativity 50 30 minutes; $200; 30 Energy once the composing activity is committed
Song Writing's action has a wider nominal window, but the Bards Guild opens at 1 PM, so 1–9 PM is the usable lesson window.
In Compose Song, select an available topic and finish its quiz. Same Song, Different Day is an initial topic without an extra character or quest unlock. The quiz normally allows one wrong answer, or two if you know Storytelling. Answering all questions within that allowance adds the song to your composed list.
Simply opening and closing the composing menu before selecting a topic does not commit the activity's costs. Selecting a topic commits the activity, including when its quiz is failed. Listening to an existing song does not itself compose one.
Kuro's Authored Signal check requires the stored song, rather than a specific title, song quality, performance history or Bard clout threshold. Other legitimate game sources of a composed song also satisfy it.

Perform for Kuro and Private Performance

At Acquaintance, after Authored Signal, choose Perform for Kuro while she is present. You must have at least one composed song. Select a song in the performance menu; a successful session costs 60 minutes and 25 Energy and awards 6 base affection, once per game day.
The first successful session also plays Private Performance. Its completion gives 10 base affection, with Caring +8, Funny +6 or Flirty +7 from its choice. A Caring answer therefore gives 24 total base affection across the first session: 6 performance +10 scene completion +8 choice. The rewards pass through their usual relationship calculations separately.
The selected song's prior history changes the first scene's presentation:
Prior history before this performance Presentation
Never performed anywhere First audience
Performed before, at fewer than three different venues Performed
Performed at at least three different venues Seasoned
These are presentation branches, not extra affection tiers or route prerequisites. All lead to the same story choice and completion. There is no requirement to perform publicly first.
After the first scene, later successful performances give their normal 6 base affection and do not replay the one-time 10-point completion or choice bonus. The route retains the song anchored by the first performance for later story references, even if you perform other songs afterward.
Kuro's private performance records the song's venue history. Its handler does not apply the normal public-venue money, valuables or clout reward calculation.

Automatic Story Encounters

All eleven automatic scenes trigger once at the Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center, 10 AM–10 PM. Each later scene needs its previous route flag; several also need a specific completed H2H. Private Performance is the manually started bridge between Authored Signal and The Afterimage.
Automatic scene Location Requirements Base reward
Optimal Misery Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center No additional prerequisite; 10 AM–10 PM 3
The Afterimage Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Friend+; Private Performance completed; 10 AM–10 PM 10
Baseline Error Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Acknowledged+; Optimal Misery completed; 10 AM–10 PM 7
Control Group Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Close Friend+; The Afterimage completed; 10 AM–10 PM 11
Noise Between Notes Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Known+; Baseline Error completed; 10 AM–10 PM 8
The Compliance Chord Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Close Friend+; Control Group completed; Silence After the Song completed; 10 AM–10 PM 12
Authored Signal Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Acquaintance+; Noise Between Notes completed; At least one composed song in your song list; 10 AM–10 PM 9
Open Channel Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Crush+; The Compliance Chord completed; 10 AM–10 PM 12
The Cost of Feeling Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Romantic+; Open Channel completed; The Hurt Problem completed; 10 AM–10 PM 13
Counter-Frequency Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: Intimate+; The Cost of Feeling completed; 10 AM–10 PM 14
Constant Signal Mood Regulation Audio Broadcasting Center Kuro: In Love+; Counter-Frequency completed; Constant Frequency completed; 10 AM–10 PM 15


Story Choice Rewards

Each listed story scene has one choice, and its answers converge on completion. The highest-reward category is not an additional route gate. Private Performance's total below excludes its separate 6-point performance-action reward.
Story scene Highest-reward category Choice bonus Best total base affection
Optimal Misery Funny 3 6
Baseline Error Flirty 6 13
Noise Between Notes Caring 6 14
Authored Signal Caring 7 16
The Afterimage Flirty 8 18
Control Group Funny 8 19
The Compliance Chord Caring 9 21
Open Channel Flirty 10 22
The Cost of Feeling Caring 10 23
Counter-Frequency Caring 10 24
Constant Signal Flirty 12 27
Private Performance Caring 8 18


Music-profile and performance-history branches can change dialogue, but they do not substitute for the required song, earlier scene flags or H2H completions.

Heart-to-Hearts

All three H2Hs start from Kuro's regular 10 AM–10 PM portrait and complete once. Their optional special answers unlock the next-round presentation variant and improve affection; ordinary answers still finish the conversation.
H2H Requirements Cost / Calm change Best ordinary total Round-2 special answer
Silence After the Song Close Friend; Control Group completed 75 minutes; 15 Energy; Calm +8 93 base Music Production: 18 instead of 16; best total 95
The Hurt Problem Romantic; Open Channel and Silence After the Song completed 90 minutes; 20 Energy; 10 Calm 114 base Empathy: 23 instead of 21; best total 116
Constant Frequency Intimate; Counter-Frequency and The Hurt Problem completed 90 minutes; 20 Energy; Calm +15 130 base Perception 70: 26 instead of 24; best total 132

Silence After the Song

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I like being the person you choose to tell. 14
2 I can play again, but only when you want me to. 16
3 I am interested in Kuro, not a version I can claim to fix. 19
4 Then next time I will play for you, not at you. 21
5 Touch her hand and promise her another private song. 23


The Hurt Problem

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I would rather face a hard feeling beside someone I trust. 18
2 I cannot promise painless. I can promise I will not abandon you. 21
3 If you choose this fight, I will help carry what follows. 23
4 I want your choice, not a more convenient version of you. 25
5 Take her hand and tell her you choose the fight with her. 27


Constant Frequency

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I would rather hear your answer than the system's label. 22
2 I have been listening for you too. 24
3 My priorities reorganize around you too. 26
4 Tell her your love does not need hers to be louder. 28
5 Hold her close without asking the moment to become louder. 30


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.
The special round-2 answers concern live resonance with Music Production, support through the aftermath with Empathy, and trusting the difference with Perception 70. These replace the ordinary answer in that round. Constant Frequency's final round also accepts “Kiss her again and tell her your answer is also constant.” for the same 30 points as the listed best answer.
If you know the Romantic skill, each completed H2H receives 25 final affection after the shared calculation, regardless of your relationship stage. These H2Hs have no separate NPC intimacy XP or player Erotic experience reward configured; their final illustrations do not imply an additional experience award.

Dates

Both dates start from Kuro's Mood Regulation Center portrait and complete once. Neither is required by the automatic main route or H2H sequence.
Date Requirements Effective portrait start time Cost / Calm change Completion reward
Neon Bazaar Date — Uncontrolled Noise Friend; Noise Between Notes completed 6–8 PM 120 minutes; $80; 30 Energy; Calm +5 8 base affection
Glass Reef Date — Resonance Crush; Open Channel completed 10 AM–6 PM 120 minutes; $100; 30 Energy; Calm +15 10 base affection
Glass Reef's action lists 8 AM–6 PM, but Kuro's portrait does not appear until 10 AM, so 10 AM–6 PM is the usable start window. Neon Bazaar does not require Authored Signal or a performance; its own requirement is the earlier Noise Between Notes flag and Friend stage. Glass Reef does not require The Hurt Problem completed.
Date / round Caring Funny Flirty
Neon Bazaar, 1 5 4 6
Neon Bazaar, 2 5 6 4
Neon Bazaar, 3 7 5 6
Glass Reef, 1 6 4 7
Glass Reef, 2 7 5 6
Glass Reef, 3 6 7 5
Best totals including completion are 27 base affection for Neon Bazaar (Flirty → Funny → Caring) and 31 base affection for Glass Reef (Flirty → Caring → Funny). All choices converge on date completion.

Frequency Analysis

At Friend and Perception 50, after Authored Signal, choose Frequency Analysis while Kuro is present. It completes once, takes 30 minutes, and gives Perception +1 and 8 direct affection.
The definition lists 10 Energy and 5 Calm, but the current one-time-reward handler does not apply those effects, so this reward does not deduct them. It has no separate first-performance or H2H prerequisite, and does not teach Music Production.

Troubleshooting

Problem What to check
Authored Signal has not appeared Acquaintance; Noise Between Notes completed; at least one composed song; 10 AM–10 PM
Perform for Kuro is missing Acquaintance; Authored Signal completed; composed song list is not empty
The Afterimage has not appeared Friend; finish the first successful portrait performance and its Private Performance scene
The Compliance Chord has not appeared Close Friend; Control Group and Silence After the Song completed
The Cost of Feeling has not appeared Romantic; Open Channel and The Hurt Problem completed
Constant Signal has not appeared In Love; Counter-Frequency and Constant Frequency completed
A date is unavailable Its own stage, named flag, effective portrait window and once-only completion
A completed route behaves differently in an older save Current code reconciles the older Counter-Frequency completion aliases on loading; check the canonical scene and H2H records

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