Ep. 6

Summary

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The laboratory names its messages to the past “D-Mails” and begins measuring the Phone Microwave's limits. Through controlled tests, Okabe, Kurisu, and Daru determine when transmission is possible, how many characters can be sent, and how far backward a message can travel. Their method remains unreliable, but experimentation turns the accident into a repeatable system. Moeka arrives asking to borrow the IBN 5100. Okabe tries to conceal both the computer and the time experiments, yet her persistence and constant phone use make secrecy impossible. Rather than force her away, he recruits her as the fifth lab member and allows her to observe. The decision brings someone with unknown motives directly into the project. Kurisu continues refining the scientific explanation, while Okabe enjoys assigning dramatic terminology and membership numbers. Beneath the playful atmosphere, the group now possesses proof that information can alter the past and access to records of SERN's fatal trials. Every new participant increases the chance that the discovery will spread beyond the lab. Moeka's fixation on the IBN, in particular, raises questions that Okabe overlooks while celebrating the apparent success of his invention.