Dating Killmulator Chapter 1

Chapter 1 begins with Dad trying to wake the protagonist 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 the protagonist enough time to wash her face, apply BB cream, mascara, blush, and lip gloss, and leave the bedroom in ten minutes. No makeup takes the direct route to university, while Slow makeup uses the late departure line and skips the bathroom investigation. 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 the protagonist, 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. The protagonist 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 the protagonist 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 the protagonist 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. The protagonist 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 recorded route, with the protagonist claiming that twenty minutes of studying is enough. Choosing Cheat on the exam records CHAP1_CHEATING and opens a second confession choice: Tell the truth admits that the protagonist may have cheated, while Lie returns to the time-will-tell response. The art-history activity contains eight painting questions. The browser record tested every candidate in the first seven questions, then tested Nox abyssus vocat me tenebris cordis mei and Tartini's Dream in the final Tartini question. The correct titles are The Swing, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, The Creation of Adam, The Judgment of Adam and Eve, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, The Last Supper, Christ Crucified, and Tartini's Dream. The remaining two Tartini labels were not clicked in this pass and stay outside the verified boundary.

After the exam, I will pass makes José describe the protagonist as confident. Selecting Sure accepts his offer to study together before the next test. Selecting I'm not passing produces José's sympathetic response; Probably not then declines the study plan and opens a follow-up check-in. The conditional Adress option leads to José asking whether the protagonist is okay, while Don't adress moves directly to the courtyard. These choices do not resolve their relationship, but they document the full tested José branch before Abel appears.

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 the protagonist to read.

Abel appears to know the protagonist'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 the protagonist has permanently selected Abel. The more direct route decisions arrive in later chapters.

At night, the protagonist 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. All three tested excuses receive the same dismissive response, and none ends the harassment. 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 the protagonist'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 the protagonist'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 the protagonist 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 the protagonist to ordinary life after the attack. University support information appears, including a mental-health helpline, while the protagonist 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 the protagonist 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.