Dating Killmulator Chapter 1

Chapter 1 begins with Dad trying to wake Nova before her first university day. She has roughly thirty minutes to get ready while he announces that he is going to bathe SugarBall. The recorded route selects Quick makeup, which gives Nova enough time to wash her face, apply BB cream, mascara, blush, and lip gloss, and leave the bedroom in ten minutes. This is the first visible choice result in the game, and Emily later comments on the new look at the bus stop.

A strange noise from the bathroom creates an optional family scene. Selecting Investigate reveals Dad wearing orange protective clothing, goggles, and a mask while trying to wash an extremely unhappy SugarBall. The follow-up response Compliment him produces the recorded joke about the cat smelling worse than a 1975 concert. Neither decision changes the main route, but together they establish the affectionate, chaotic relationship between Nova, Dad, and the cat before the darker plot begins.

On the walk to the bus stop, a television report describes Charles's death in a car accident that was initially treated as suicide until investigators found that the tires had been manipulated. Nova dismisses the broadcast and thinks she has never been in danger. The line becomes deliberate dramatic irony once the chapter reaches its night-time bus-stop sequence.

Emily greets Nova at the bus stop, praises the makeup, and immediately turns the compliment into an insult. The recorded response is Insult, keeping their familiar exchange of barbed jokes while making Emily complain that Nova is being rude. Let her finish then reveals Emily's real news: Abel followed her on Instapic. Choosing Follow him encourages Emily to follow Abel back, and she later sends him a direct message. These choices set up the misunderstanding that becomes important when Abel appears in person.

José joins the university scenes as Emily repeatedly provokes him. When the courtyard argument offers Defend José or Defend Emily, the saved route chooses Defend Emily. Nova tells José that he knows what Emily is like and moves the group toward the exam. This is a social alignment choice rather than a final romance lock; the later chapter still allows positive interactions with José and introduces Abel separately.

The exam begins with a direct choice between cheating and taking the test normally. Don't cheat on the exam is the verified route, with Nova claiming that twenty minutes of studying is enough. The minigame asks the player to match famous paintings to their titles. Select The Swing for Fragonard, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog for Friedrich, and The Creation of Adam for Michelangelo. The recorded run briefly selected The Creation of Man, saw it turn red, and corrected the answer before the countdown expired.

After the exam, I will pass makes José describe Nova as confident. Selecting Sure accepts his offer to study together before the next test. That promise does not resolve their relationship, but it preserves José's friendly route and explains why he remains part of the university group after Emily's repeated insults.

In the courtyard, Emily is eager to prove that Abel followed her intentionally. Abel approaches José, barely responds to Emily, and says the Instapic follow was probably a misclick. Emily leaves in frustration while Abel asks José about practice. The exchange undercuts Emily's confident version of events and introduces Abel as someone already connected to José but difficult for Nova to read.

Abel appears to know Nova's name before a proper introduction, which adds another small mystery to a chapter already filled with manipulated accidents and strange social connections. The recorded choices around Emily and Abel preserve the complete conversation, but they do not establish that Nova has permanently selected Abel. The more direct route decisions arrive in later chapters.

At night, Nova waits alone when an older stranger begins asking invasive questions and refuses to respect her attempts to leave. The game offers I have a boyfriend, I am late for glee club, and I am a minor. The recorded answer is I am a minor. It is important not to present that option as a successful safety solution: the man continues, uses the answer to escalate his behavior, and physically blocks Nova's exit.

Cain enters after the situation has already become dangerous. The sequence shows blood and a knife, and the following chapter later makes the result explicit: Cain killed the attacker. Chapter 1 initially presents the intervention through shock, partial information, and Nova's frightened perspective, which is why the rescue feels protective and threatening at the same time.

The final character-impact choice records Won't give any problems. Cain's affection display reaches 50%, preserving his route without suggesting that Nova is safe around him. His protection is inseparable from surveillance and violence, a tension that becomes central to Chapters 2 and 3.

The chapter closes by returning Nova to ordinary life after the attack. University support information appears, including a mental-health helpline, while Nova is left with incomplete knowledge about the stranger who intervened. This transition matters because the next chapter does not treat the bus-stop event as an isolated bad dream; it becomes the reason Nova meets Florian and begins describing what happened.

For a continuity-focused playthrough, keep the recorded route intact: finish the exam without cheating, accept José's study invitation, preserve the Emily and Abel setup, and choose the non-confrontational response to Cain. Those decisions reproduce the save state used by the Chapter 2 walkthrough.