His eyes were bloodshot. The "Phone Microwave (Name Subject to Change)" sat innocently between them, yet it had just rewritten reality. Again.
Okabe stepped onto the balcony, looking out over the neon-soaked streets of Akihabara. To the world, it was a normal Tuesday. To him, it was a battlefield where the lines of time were shifting like sand. He remembered a girl he’d met earlier—Moeka. Her desperate, silent eyes as she messaged him about the same IBN 5100. Everyone was hunting for this machine. Steins;Gate Episode 4
The hum of the CRT television in the shop downstairs vibrated through the floorboards of the Future Gadget Laboratory. Rintaro Okabe, the self-proclaimed mad scientist Hououin Kyouma, stood over a table littered with wires and half-eaten bananas. His eyes were bloodshot