>>531147247
I feel dumb for not thinking about that but it's very likely. So the people in charge of Darumi actually hated her and possibly berated her through the pod, sad. Maybe Gaku's foster parents, the lady who betrayed Kurara, Kyoshika's mentor, Ima and Kako's father, etc were all influenced by their scientists. It'd be really sad in a route 0 epilogue to see the remaining SDU meet the people in their memories and realize they're completely different individuals, and even for the scientists who got attached to their OCs to realize they didn't make it