Update - Mika and Hirai in the bathroom (Patreon)

tl;dr - Mika and Hirai have an alternate version of the new Mika/Shuji scene; I've been making scenes for the shops district to unlock early in the relationships; and I'm looking to put in more hard to find scenes, starting with a follow up to Nobuko's laundry day.

This week's image

As you can see, this is an alternate version of the scene I showed a couple of weeks ago, but with Hirai involved this time.

For this scene, I decided to try a different structure than what I've used before, in which you can try to trigger the scene with Mika, but if Hirai's relationship with her is high enough then he'll get there first.

Of course, that'll only happen if Hirai's scenes are enabled and you've allowed that relationship to develop. You'll also still be able to get the Mika/Shuji scene afterward by trying it again, if you trigger this scene.

Recent work

Over the last week or two I've been playing around with some new scenes to trigger in the shops area. I want more scenes to show up that can be accessed before you've unlocked the girls' sex scenes, so that's been the focus for now, but I think some of these could also lead to unlocking later scenes.

No, it's not THAT Hiroshi. Just a little reference.

For example, I do know I plan to have a story featuring Emi & Nobuko, revolving around a strip club, but this shouldn't play out all at once and instead should be something that develops through multiple encounters.

I don't know how many of these scenes I'll come up with to play out in the shops area, but the good thing is it doesn't really matter. They can be one-offs or part of a chain of events; either way I think they'll be interesting to track down.

Nobuko laundry room

Another thing I've been playing around with is a scene to follow up from Nobuko's laundry day scene in the hallway. A number of players have brought that scene up, probably because of Nobuko's outfit, and so I've decided to have a possible follow up scene that you can access only if you've romanced her.

This will be a hard scene to access, as the laundry day scene happens early and it's extremely difficult to romance her by then, unless you've already unlocked her ending on a previous play through and thus have the bonus stat boosts to romancing her from that ending.

I want to have more stuff hidden in the game that requires a little bit of work to discover; that's just been tricky to provide thus far in development. I will try to include some more as I go.

What do you think of this Mika/Hirai scene? And do the other new scenes I'm trying out sound good? Let me know in the comments!