Ep. 4

Summary

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Daru cannot read the most important files taken from SERN because they use an obsolete programming language. John Titor tells Okabe that an IBN 5100 can interpret the code, connecting the investigation to the computer Moeka has been seeking. Kurisu remains reluctant to call the Phone Microwave a time machine, yet she helps Okabe research the vintage system. Faris Nyannyan, the popular maid-café performer whom Okabe knows through Mayuri, recalls that her wealthy family once donated an IBN 5100 to Luka's shrine. Okabe confirms that Luka's father still possesses the machine and persuades him to lend it to the laboratory. Transporting the heavy computer through Akihabara becomes an exhausting task, but Kurisu joins Okabe rather than dismissing his claims. Their search also reveals how differently each person approaches the mystery: Okabe dramatizes every development as a conspiracy, while Kurisu demands repeatable evidence. Once the IBN reaches the lab, Daru finally has the hardware needed to decode SERN's hidden database. The group is now positioned to learn exactly what the organization's experiments produced—and why the same physical distortion appears in their gel bananas.