Romance X -1999-

"I got an offer," it read. "A chance to go to Tokyo for a new job—repairing older audio equipment for a boutique studio. It's three years. I didn't know how to tell you. I thought...maybe we could try something. Or maybe it's too much. I don't want to make your story harder. —K."

In 2022, a user on a retro computing forum uploaded a corrupted .bin file labeled ROMANCE_X_BETA_1999-11-03 . This sparked: ROMANCE X -1999-