Kotone/Walkthrough

This is a detailed walkthrough for Kotone ' s content. Written by L30MGD, edited and added to by TheDisturbedDragon.

Walkthrough
WARNING: This walkthrough contains information that also spoilers content with regards to the Will-Power Temple as clearing it is required to advance Kotone's relationship content. As an additional note, for conversations that have multiple responses, the best response with regards to point gains will be in bold text.

Phase One: Worthy of Love
Kotone's relationship content currently requires the player to either willingly or unknowingly fall for her trap. Kotone's offer of mental strengthening to make the Trial of Will of the Will-Power Temple easier is a trick. While she will increase your Willpower as promised, she'll also layer in more suggestions and hypnotic controls to allow her to dominate you more easily and vastly increase the challenge of the Temple. However, if you can clear the Will Side of the Temple as well as defeat the Oni Twins in their Hard Mode Battle with this handicap, you'll be the first person who has proven worthy of her love as Kotone has old-school Monster Girl sensibilities and wants a man who can pass her test.

Kitsune's Mental Help
To begin with, Kotone's relationship absolutely will not advance at this point in time unless you subject yourself to her trap and allow her to place triggers in your mind during her hypnosis help sessions.

1. "Ask about her services." -- This the first step to subjecting yourself to Kotone's trick so that you may eventually pursue a relationship with her. You can explore her other dialogue options for now, but you will not earn any progress. Doing so could still be worth it for any potential information provided or to compare and contrast her behavior.


 * A. "Sure." -- This will lead to your first hypnosis session, Flame Induction I, where Kotone will use a mote of foxfire to hypnotize you. The end result of this is that you will receive the perk Kotone's Hypno Training 1, a purely beneficial perk that increases your Willpower by 1, but it also lays the foundation for Kotone to place more triggers in your mind during future sessions as it increases the hidden fetish of Hypnosis Addict.


 * B. "What's hypnosis?" -- This option just provides general information on hypnosis itself for those interested in more information on the subject.


 * i. "Sure." -- This is the same as the prior option A for "Sure."


 * ii. "I'll pass." -- This is the same as the following option C for "I'll pass."


 * C. "I'll pass." -- This is the worst option given that you cannot advance with Kotone without allowing her to hypnotize you completely.

2. "Get a hypnosis session." -- This option is unlocked after you have your first hypnosis session and have acquired Kotone's Hypno Training 1. These sessions will cost 100 Eros and will need to be repeated until you have acquired the perk Kotone's Hypno Slave. The first paid scene will be Flame Induction II where you'll be hypnotized with foxfire again. This will upgrade the prior perk into Kotone's Hypno Training 2, increasing your Willpower by 2 instead of 1 as well as adding a 5% resist to the Sleep status effect. However, it will also decrease your resistance to the Trance status effect by 5% as well as increase your hidden Hypnosis Addict fetish to level 2.


 * A. If you want, you can now enter the Trial of Will, however Kotone's relationship will not continue until you have undergone all 4 hypnosis sessions, gaining the Kotone's Hypno Slave "perk."

3. Once you have obtained the Hypno Slave perk, you can attempt to pass the Trial of Will, each part with an increased level of difficulty. Upon succeeding in both the Trial of Will and Trial of Strength, you can enter the double doors in the center of the Will-Power Temple. There you will encounter a group of Kunoichi and their teacher, followed by the boss battle of the area, against a pair of Oni twins. To progress down Kotone's relationship path, you must challenge both Oni at once while possessing the Hypno Slave perk.

If you are successful you can return to Kotone, who congratulates you and states that you're now hers, and invites you into her room where a number of scenes become available.

Phase Two: Worthy of Trust
Now that you have passed Kotone's trial and proven yourself worthy of her love, it is time to deepen your relationship with the beautiful Kitsune. Unfortunately, a betrayal in her youth has left an indelible scar on her psyche that she has been unable to overcome alone. By increasing her affection and earning her trust, you'll be able to help heal her heart, receiving more rewards as well as a more equal and truly loving relationship.

To do this, make sure to exhaust all of her dialogue options, replying eagerly for the best result. Several paths are locked, Kotone clearly hiding something from you. In order to get her to trust you, engage in cuddling to get the nightmare event. To the best of my knowlege it doesn't matter which option you pick, however after several times she will allow you to (briefly) touch her tail. Repeat this several times, followed by asking about her past lovers again, at which point she reveals her tragic backstory. Accuse her of not trusting you, and she will break down and admit it, before she allows you to help her with aversion therapy. After repeating this several more times, you can ask her if you have to be her hypno-slave. She will trance you and change the perk from Kotone's Hypno-Slave to Kotone's Hypno Lover, which is far, far better.

Phase Three: ?????
Kotone's next phase of content is currently unknown as of this time. She does have more content planned however as well as her involvement with other characters such as Feng.

Old Brief Walkthrough - Temporarily retained until this section is complete.

L30 recommendation:

For Kotone, first you need to go through all of her dialogue chains and pick the nice/caring/supportive responses to build up her affection/progress. Once you have gone through all of those and listened to her more tragic stories, notably the ones about Feng and her first love, then you're nearly there.

As it sounds like you have done all of this, the last steps to truly becoming her lover begin with the dialogue option "about our relationship." During the followup responses with regards to the hypnosis, you need to pick the option that states that it is "a pain while adventuring." Kotone should have a nervous response to this and if you have obtained enough affection/progress points and learned all of her tragic history, then a new dialogue option that states that she doesn't trust you should appear.

That dialogue option will kick off the final stages of advancing from her Hypno Slave to her Hypno Lover as you help heal her heart and get over the trauma by touching and petting her tail. There will be several events for this that you'll have to go through, but at the end of this chain of events are the Hypno Lover perk upgrade to replace the Hypno Slave perk, the ability to have lovey-dovey sex with her, and the ability to touch, pet, and cuddle with her tail along with a now fully devoted kitsune lover.

Notes:


 * While you can ask her about Feng after meeting the Jiangshi, I am unsure if this is required to advance her relationship. I do assume that responding negatively will decrease her trust in you.
 * You can visit Kotone before completing her challenge to check your progress.
 * The oni twins are difficult normally, for the best chance at facing them together, overleveling to about level 40-50 is recommended (I did it at 42 with quite a bit of difficulty).