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Got to be honest, this one is my favorite of the dev's three May Wolf entries, by a long shot!

SPOILERS to follow

While it shares some weaknesses with the other two entries (such as the lack of narration), I think this limitation works far better here, in this setting, than in the other two stories. At certain points the protagonist acts for all intents and purposes as the narrator, which feels appropriate in this particular story (which is all about this character's self-exploration), and the cassettes provide a nice excuse to be jumping around in the timeline. The premise of the story is also something I very much enjoy.

The one weakness of the story is that I don't really buy its main conflict: the story is trying to sell what the protagonist does as a "sacrifice" (give up his memories). But we don't get to see any happy memory after the love interest dies, so the sacrifice feels hollow at beast. Not to mention, it's a second chance at life when the protagonist already died. I think this plot point, which ends up taking a lot of space, doesn't feel very satisfactory. Everything else I enjoyed a lot though!

Absolutely fair!  This was my favorite concept, but I didn't flesh it out as well as I wanted.  

To give you an idea of how vague the idea was, magic time dragon wasn't even an thought until I wrote up to the part of MC dying and was thinking how to give him the ability to turn back time. 

I already had the dragon as the doctor, I already had the standard "I'll give up anything" line.  I just went back and added the doctor's musings so the other part would make sense later.

I'm not proud of it, it's just the way my mind works (or doesn't, as the case may be).  ; )

You are right about no other happy memories as well; the tapes representing the end of his life all had the same shade of purple to show he wasn't devastated, but he was never really happy, either.  He just kind of... existed.

I have more I'd like to go back and add once this is all over.  Thanks again for taking part in the event stream.