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Hiruko shows a special interest in Takumi in Eva route when she stops Sirei from detonating him, which branches from second scenario, albeit this is one of the routes where Kamyuhn appears and may, playing into theories about the order in which routes were written, have been done after the Uchikoshi routes. In general Kodaka writes Hiruko as having a unique respect for Takumi, while the outright romantic angle appears to come from Uchikoshi's side of things. One thing I'd love which we're never going to get is confirmation of how much of the background lore was established without Kodaka's involvement; I can kind of accept he might have been involved in part with the G'ie, but their exact abilities and the PLM itself are absolutely pure Uchikoshi to me. I can't imagine Kodaka wrote second scenario with the idea in mind that his story had five different types of time travel.