Only Mayuri, due to her slow reaction, understood that there was something in everyone's heart; everyone else was frantically mocking Brooch.
In short, it's a round table conference, lol.
He was already powerless to refute the mockery, caught between two sides and unable to think of more explanations, so he could only forcefully establish the name 'Round Table Conference' in an unreasonable way.
This Okabe is so lame, and Mr. Hououin.
So, are they going to involve Mayuri?
"Chirp—chirp—"
Although she was urged to go to work, Amane Suzuha was merely holding a broom, basking in the sun in front of the shop, casually sweeping left and right.
She lifted her head, her gaze directed towards the Laboratory upstairs.
Their windows were open.
"Therefore, to defeat SERN, we must as quickly as possible improve the Time Machine function of the phone microwave (provisional)." Okabe Rintaro, with his hands in his pockets, concluded after explaining the situation.
"Eh, it's too difficult for Mayushii to understand."
Helpless, Okabe Rintaro could only give a simpler and clearer conclusion:
"In short, SERN is a big bad guy."
"Hmm, you said develop the Phone Microwave," Hashida Itaru said, following Okabe Rintaro's topic, "But haven't we already successfully sent text messages to the past?"
"Only twice," Okabe Rintaro shook his head, "And it's still unclear when this phenomenon will occur."
Hashida Itaru thought for a moment and said, "From previous experiments, it seems that messages can only be sent successfully when there's a discharge phenomenon."
"Ah, that's right!" Suddenly, Okabe Rintaro seemed to realize something.
Makise Kurisu looked sideways and said, "Did you think of something?"
"No, 'text messages that can be sent to the past' is too awkward," Okabe Rintaro said in a deep voice, "Let's start with naming."
"Huh?" Makise Kurisu was speechless. "Trying to be cool again?"
Okabe Rintaro became anxious:
"Remove that 'again,' it's an insult to me, Hououin Kyouma…"
"Anyway, you just want to come up with some weird name, don't you?" Makise Kurisu averted her gaze.
"How rude! Well, I'll announce it then." Okabe Rintaro decided to ignore her.
"I name this phenomenon, where text messages can be sent to the past, as follows…"
As his voice fell, he suddenly raised both hands and shouted:
"Its name is—'Nostalgia Drive'!"
"…"
Although no one paid him any mind, Okabe Rintaro still pinched his chin and continued to explain:
"By the way, it's written as 'Journey of Nostalgia Beyond Time and Space,' and read as 'Nostalgia Drive'."
"Too difficult to understand, rejected."
"Bang." With a punch on a nearby cabinet, Okabe Rintaro clenched his fist: "Ah, you! Do you, a mere Assistant, think you have veto power?!"
"Then the minority obeys the majority." She turned her head to look at the other two: "Who is in favor of 'Nostalgia Drive'?"
"…"
Brooch really doesn't learn his lesson. With the window open, everyone can hear his loud voice, right?
'In short, SERN is a big bad guy.'
The explanation is too brief.
Sending text messages to the past ≠ Time Machine established.
SERN has already been able to send people back to the past, although they are all dead, but that is a proper Time Machine. Text messages, well, text messages are also quite useful.
Text messages are incredibly useful. If SERN hadn't been obsessed with its broken human experiments and had started playing with text messages earlier, I think it would have ruled the world a long time ago.
So, another strange name?
After seeing his true nature, Assistant is no longer scared.
I want to see Assistant cry, Okabe, can you be a bit more fierce?
Assistant: ?
"…"
Silence.
Dead silence.
"Eh?" Okabe Rintaro looked at the smiling Mayuri and Hashida Itaru, who was tugging at his hat, showing an incredulous expression: "You betrayed me?! Mayuri! Tonz!"
Mayuri maintained her smile:
"I think Miss Kurisu is right. Mayushii can't remember such a long name."
"It's too chuunibyou, consider it." Seeing Mayuri clearly express her opposition, Hashida Itaru quietly added this sentence.
"If it's to be easier to understand, since it's a text message that goes back to the past, wouldn't 'Retrograde Mail' be good?" Makise Kurisu offered her suggestion.
"What's retrograde?" Then, she was shot down by Mayuri.
"Isn't that completely not easy to understand~" With Okabe Rintaro's follow-up jab, Makise Kurisu's expression changed from a V to an inverted Λ.
She was at the same table as Okabe Rintaro when it came to naming.
Pain.
Gently pushing his hat, Hashida Itaru also tried to express his opinion:
"I think it could be called 'Time-Traveling Mail,' consider it."
"A bit stiff, too troublesome to say," Okabe Rintaro rejected.
"You have no right to say that," Makise Kurisu retorted.
Seeing his proposal rejected, Hashida Itaru immediately turned to attack Okabe Rintaro:
"Okabe, isn't your 'old days of the past' even longer?"
"As long as it's romantic, romantic."
"Then, let's just call it 'Time Travel'!"
"In that case, we wouldn't know what is time traveling."
"Is it a text message, a girl, or a banana?"
Okabe Rintaro and Hashida Itaru argued endlessly.
"tuturu, Mayushii thought of something too!" Mayuri also joined in, raising her hand.
She extended her index finger: "That, that, 'Back to the mail'!"
"Literally translated, it's 'Back to the Mail,' the meaning is unclear." With a hint of 'since my proposal was rejected, I'll reject everyone else's,' Okabe Rintaro unhesitatingly rejected even his childhood friend's suggestion.
"Then, 'Ultra-High-Speed Flash Mail'!"
"It's getting harder and harder to understand."
"I say," Suddenly, Makise Kurisu spoke up:
"Why not just shorten it and call it 'D-mail'?"
Ultimately, arguing endlessly over a name was something only Okabe Rintaro would do.
Instead of letting him continue to sulk like this, it was better to just decide it.
Okabe Rintaro: "?!"
"Ah, that's good," Mayuri expressed her agreement.
Hashida Itaru also nodded: "Then, it's decided."
The minority obeys the majority; even if Okabe Rintaro had an opinion, he had no power to object.
Arguing endlessly over a name, it oddly feels like a real Laboratory.
What is 'Laboratory feel'?
From midway, Brooch was just refuting for the sake of refuting, wasn't he?
After all, the name he carefully considered was rejected.
Isn't that fine? Anyway, isn't Brooch just like a primary school boy?
Mr. Hououin is like that.