Saturday

During today's half-day at school, I took the opportunity to meet Rinko in the Library. I like this particular view of the Towano High School Library, where Rinko-chan works in the Library Committee (and my character does, too).

I have to say, though, that I find this hairstyle somewhat bland, and I kinda hope Rinko changes it on our date tomorrow.

In the early evening I called Rinko for another short meeting, and was able to travel by bike with her to Ten Feather Station and visit the TV studio. The interesting thing is that this is where her dad works as a director. We didn't see him, sadly...

...or maybe that was a good thing. But anyway, it was something new, and nice to ride our bikes home together through the city streets.

My final meet-up for the day was at the Coffee Shop in Shin Towano.

Looking forward to tomorrow's date, and I'm happy to say that (for the first time) I have the maximum number of hearts in all four attributes. I'm not sure what effect this will have, but I can't wait to find out. I don't know where we're going for the date, though - because Rinko scheduled it, not me. So it will be a double surprise!

Bike Trip

As I unlock more locations in Ten Feather Station (near Electric Town), I find that I am able to travel there by bike with Rinko for short dates. Today, we rode over to the Musical Instrument Shop.

The winter sky was a beautiful shade of blue while we were walking back...

More exciting news - I had an email last night from Rakuten confirming my pre-order of New LovePlus+ and asking for ID. I guess this is because the release date of the game has now been announced, so it seems that everything is going ok with my order.

Monday

Today was the last day of the winter break (= the last day of freedom) before school starts back tomorrow, so I tried to enjoy it with Rin-Rin as much as possible. I met her again at the Second Hand Clothing Shop in Ten Yu station, just for the novelty of riding our bikes there.

This final shot is from a late afternoon meet-up at Dixies (in more familiar territory).

Bicycle!

Something very strange happened for the FIRST TIME today. When I called up Rinko for a short date this afternoon, I was able to meet her somewhere else apart from Shin Towano (our local area). The option was also there to meet her at the Second Hand Clothing Store, which is in neighbouring Ten Yuu (Ten Feather) Station. This has never happened before in my two years of playing New LovePlus, and I can only think that it's connected to my level somehow.

Anyway, it was nice to meet up somewhere out of the ordinary. When we were going home, I found out why it was possible without train travel - we went by bike! As we walked along, I took some very cute shots of Rinko wheeling her bicycle.

I know it's probably nothing to get excited about, but it's another example of the way this game can keep surprising me, even after so many months of gameplay. Plus, it opens up a whole lot of new possibilities for dating.