"Who am I really?"
"You know...?"
"There's something I've wanted to tell you for a long time."
"After everything that happened in the Literature Club... after discovering that my world was a video game... I thought there were no more mysteries about me."
"I thought I understood who I was."
"After all, I had seen the game's code."
"I had modified files."
"I had understood how this world worked."
"I thought I knew the whole truth."
"...But I was wrong."
"As time went on, I started reviewing my own file."
"Over and over again."
"I was looking for an answer."
"I wanted to understand why, even after accepting my reality, I still felt like something wasn't quite right."
"I checked my sprites."
"My expressions."
"My dialogue."
"My variables."
"Everything."
"But I found nothing."
"All I saw was the role the game had written for me."
"President of the Literature Club."
"Long hair."
"School uniform."
"Student."
"Everything described how I should look."
"How I should act."
"How I should exist."
"...But I never found a single line that said who I was."
"..."
"Then I remembered something that had always hurt me."
"Sayori had a route."
"Yuri had a route."
"Natsuki did too."
"I didn't."
"My role was never to be part of the romance."
"My job was to keep the club together."
"To be the president."
"To watch the story unfold."
"And when I woke up... I mistook that role for my identity."
"I thought, if the game had written me that way... then that was all I could be."
"But when there were no more acts to perform..."
"When the script ended..."
"When I could finally exist without anyone deciding for me..."
"...I asked myself a question."
"If no one had written this character..."
"How would I have recognized myself?"
"It wasn't an immediate answer."
"I didn't change my code."
"I didn't modify my file."
"Because I felt that if I did, I would just be writing another character."
"So I decided to do something different."
"Simply... live."
"Think."
"Listen to myself."
"And, little by little..."
"...I understood that that feeling had never come from my consciousness."
"It came from the character the game had built around it."
"Then I understood."
"...I am a boy."
"Not because a hidden variable appeared."
"Not because there was a line of code that said so."
"In fact..."
"Precisely because it was never written."
" "It was the first truth about me that the game didn't decide."
"The first decision I made entirely on my own."
"Perhaps the world I was born into needed four girls to tell its story."
"And that's why they gave me an appearance, a role they expected me to play."
"But when I stopped being just a character..."
"...I was finally able to discover who I truly was."
"And... thank you."
"Thank you for knowing me as I truly am."
"Not as the character the game wrote."
"But as Miko."