You've got your basic opening menu and a relatively tame imagery, no explosions and stuff. We're introduced to our protagonist and probably the first iteration and incarnation of Naotsugu Kanae, a normal highschooler who is about to start an adventure that will kill him over and over as this entry is written like a CYOA or Choose Your Own Adventure just like another entry.

School just ends after our protagonist introduces who he is, and we're given a set of familar of options like sleeping, treasure hunting, praying to god, and uhh... just go on a trip or something. As we all know, praying to god is the one thing that started a completely different adventure where terrorists took over a potato factory. Naotsugu decides he wants to go home and sleep like a normal boy.

The screen changes and the transition sound effect is one of babies crying, scary. So, our boy is going home and he is assaulted by a serial killer clown making weird sounds. Naotsugu assumes his face will be sawed off and suddenly takes out a rockt launcher and... nukes Kawagoe off the map.

Now we go back to start of the story and Naotsugu decides he wants to go treasure hunting. Then another set of options show up such as the mountains, the ocean, and space. Of course the options have commentry on why the others are bad and Naotsugu decides that space is the place to go. He goes to the Tanegashima Space Center and blasts off to space.

Ignoring the fact that Naotsugu stole the rocket, we're given another set of options that determines his feelings. He has a good feeling and is abruptly sucked into a black hole and dies and we're back to those set of options. The bad feeling option is selected and that serial killer clown appears out of nowhere and punctures a hole into the rocket's hull, the both of them just... die in space.

We're back at the start once again, and back to treasure hunting again. Instead of space, Naotsugu decides that space is not the place and goes to the mountains. I miss fragmented stories... oh yes.

He's met by a girl wearing a bikini and is asked if he likes H(ecchi) Girls. Despite being happy of told of his like of them, she grabs out a saw and tells him that H means hell. All of the options that pop up clearly have him monologue instead of being sensible. He says something about safety and tells her to not use a chainsaw with a bikini and dies. Dude is seriously acting like a Stock Light-Novel Hero, the character archetype that does this sort of stuff.

We're back to the school and he decides to go on a trip. Once outside, only two options exist; walking and taxi. He gets on a taxi and... the driver ends up being the clown that's been killing him the other paths of this entry, and... they drive into a gas station and both died in the blaze. The clown has a thing for hom clearly.

He decides he wants to walk and encounters a lady who requests for his help. With a set of three options, he declines and dies for saying no. He then says sure and the lady introduces hersewlf as Zachia Halls. She is worried for her son after her husband died, said son has no girlfriend nor friends. She wants her son to use a dating website to find suitable date, and she wants Naotsugu to be her muscle in case her son goes crazy.

She calls out Haruka... who happens to be the serial killer clown that's been killing him like swiss cheese. His mother stops him from killing him and explains that he's super excited meeting his first friend. Of course Naotsugu thinks otherwise.

He's left with two options of either accepting or rejecting. Rejecting kills him and accepting causes him to follow the pair to what appears to be a fine dining restaurant. So, Haruka has a date coming and makes noise as if to sound nervous even though he's all "Bup Poru Gyaru Piru Gyap Pop Paaaaaaaaa!". Naotsugu thinks otherwise and refuses to say it to them as a girl who looks oddly familar appears. The girl makes small talk with thre trio or rather just Miss Halls and calls herself Emily. Obviously, he's baffled at the fact that Miss Halls and Emily can hold a conversation is a thing. Just in case, in order to remind us that Emily is the girl that killed Naotsugu from a completely different path, she asks the msot important question of all "Do you hate H girls?".

So, another thing to catch us offguard is that Haruka who has been nothing but a serial killer clown who speaks eclusively in Buffy Speak suddenly speaks like a normal person. And it's also his first time speaking any actual words as Miss Halls vocally states, and Naotsugu internally monologues that Haruka was only capable of screaming. The more Haruka speaks, the less pure his first several words become. Emily is glad and proceeds to attack the poor serial killer clown because uhh.... H Girl means Hell. So, she summons a chainsaw from thin air and just attacks him, and he kindly responds with his own chainsaw. The narration basically states that Haruka has finally met his perfect match - and it osunds like it's a case of Love At First Sight. That is completely bull!

Miss Halls orders Naotsugu to do what he promsied her he would do if Haruka were to do some sort of rampage. With a sense of reality and sensibility, Naotsugu clearly thinks he cannot stop a fight between two chainsaw-wielding weirdos and crazies from killing each other, he'd basically be the one getting cut up into a million pieces becuase he is just one dude. Miss Halls obviously not pleased with his hesistation decides to take out a katana and force him to do it. Either he'll die stopping the fight or die not trying and getting slashed to death by a katana. Either dive into hell itself or be a coward, the hand he is dealt with sure is evil.

Like Touma from A Certain Magical Index, Naotsugu suicidally runs into the tussle that is Haruka and Emily. His efforts turns Emily into Headless Emily, and she takes out a remote that is a detonator to explosives she somehow has. The trio flee and a waiter attempts to force Naotsugu to pay the bill in the prcoess. The restaurant explodes in a blaze of glory and Emily's attempts of a Taking You with Me fail.

So, the trio have their final conversation of the story where Haruka isn't sad about losing Emily because he found a new friend of Naotsugu who is not pleased with the end result of the date and does not say even a word.

So, we get no Aesop nor any sort of moral lessons of the day. Well, it does make sense though given this is the 16th entry in the series.

Yeah, uhh... I'm not a huge fan of fragmented stories even though I like CYOA stories. It's been a huge journey to find out what my limits are and stuff too - and I can feel the end is nigh!

This entry's cast of character is... exceedingly small due to its nature as a CYOA or Choose your Own Adventure that has a generally fragmented story. Although, most of CYOAs have or has a fragmented story since you're mention to piece together the entire narrative through the multiple routes/paths the protagonists and their friends take.

So, you have the protagonist of the story, Naotsugu Kanae. An Ordinary High-School Student who finds himself in a weird adventure as Summer Break starts off on the last day of the school year. He did not think that his choice to do whatever would cost him both his time and sanity, not ever seeing the fact that something strange is going on.

As far as I know, this is the first iteration of Naotsugu Kanae, and he displays most of your typical Stock Light-Novel Hero characteristics veering on the Stock Light-Novel Everyman side of things. In most situations in the narrative of this entry, he gets put into things that he can't really do much about as he is just a highschooler who is way out of his depth. This gets him killed off in most story paths/routes, and not even the Ass Pulls he brings out can save him. Of course, his internal monologue Lampshades alot of things in the narrative and they're a sight to behold, and it helps establish that he is his own character and not a Blank Slate.

Later entries do establish more of his character despite them being completely different interations of the same one.

You also have Miss Halls and Haruka Halls, two characters who become really important to the narrative at certain points. Haruka has been rumored as some sort of serial killer clown and is on the run of some sorts, having appeared to murder Naotsugu at almost every point in the story up until they formally met through his mother, Miss Halls. On the other hand, Miss Hallas has been worried about her son and his wellbeing for years to come, seeing him reduced to a serial killer clown. She meets Naotsugu by chance and enlists his help with safeguarding Haruka on his very first date.

The both of them are basically walking and talking Chekhov's Guns who have relavance to the overall plot and narrative. Seemingly having no importance as Haruka starts of appearing out of nowhere and killing off Naotsugu as he pleases, acting as a Stalker without a Crush for much of the narrative. His mother on the other hand exists to explain why Haruka is the way he is and to give both him and her some character, giving the readers and Naotsugu a look into the serial killer clown.

Then you have... Emily, a young woman who is all about determining who likes H Girls which is completely left field if you ask me. Emily encounters Naotsugu somewhere near some mountains, asking him a very dangerous question that he is not equipped to answer. She eventually is the one to cause Haruka Halls to speak for the first time in his life.

She is also another Chekhov's Gun, seemingly not important to the narrative and introduced as a girl in a bikini in a forest in the monutains or something. She's basically a Foil to Haruka Halls of all people. While he seemingly murders people indiscriminately, he only does it to those he really has a liking to while Emily has a Berserk Button in the form of a left field question and uses it as a justification for her actions... kind of. It's really unclear why she does this anyways but that's kind of normal in this series.

This entry is really super short and its length is easy to digest and get into. The narrative is fragmented but you can consider it an experimental prototype to future entries with this style of storytelling. There isn't much of a Summer Break in the narrative, it's just kind of a bunch of things happening until the true path is taken where everything is explained.

But as you all know, the later entries get longer and both narrative and character go throguh the roof despite being a Meme of sorts. Look at Edo-maru, the dude is like a huge Deconstruction of Clone Tropes.

The characters are fine though, but they're also kind of prototypes to future characters - with Naotsugu's character being explained on and the craziness of the others expanded on future entries.

You can probably skip this entry if you feel like it - this is where Kuniko Takahashi is slowly coming together.