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.

For reference, in this guide, bold choices represent those necessary to progress through content. Italic choices represent options that give you points towards the relationship. Bold italics represent the best possible point gains in a specific set of choices. Underlined choices negatively impact the relationship with some possibly locking you out of content; the consequences of negative choices will be underlined.

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 able to progress in your relationship with her.

Kitsune's Mental Help
To begin with, Kotone's relationship will only advance if you subject yourself to her trap and allow her to place triggers in your mind during her hypnosis help sessions. When entering the hypnosis room for the first time, you'll be presented with these options:


 * 1) "Ask about her services." -- This will prompt Kotone to explain her hypnosis sessions to you, and prompt you to respond with:
 * 2) "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.
 * 3) "What's hypnosis?" -- This option just provides general information on hypnosis itself for those interested in more information on the subject, and will lead you back to this menu without this choice.
 * 4) "I'll pass." -- Will lead you back to the general menu.
 * 5) "Talk." -- Brings up the talk menu, which at this phase, does not change your relationship with Kotone.
 * 6) "Leave." -- Exits the hypnosis room.

Upon reentering the hypnosis room after the first session, the first option will change to "Get a hypnosis session." which will progress your relationship with Kotone and deepen your hypnosis four more times. 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.

After the fourth hypnosis session, you'll be presented with choices:


 * 1) " 'Yes, Kotone...'" -- Progresses to the final hypnosis session.
 * 2) "'Y-You've been messing with my head!'" -- Adds two choices in place of this one:
 * 3) "'Let me go!'" -- Picking this will add another new option:
 * 4) "Run!" -- This will allow you to escape without any checks required.
 * 5) "Fight her!" -- Picking this does nothing and leads you back to the same menu.
 * 6) "'Y-You're supposed to free me! Mizuko told me!'" -- This choice will only be available if you've completed Kotone's challenge before receiving the final hypnosis session. Choosing it will add a new option:
 * 7) "Free me already!" -- You can be freed of Kotone's Hypnosis through this option if you wish.
 * 8) "'I-I should go...'" -- You can attempt to leave, which will start a Temptation check, requiring a 20 or more to pass. If you have a Kissing fetish, you will automatically fail. You can try again after failing once, but with a check requiring 25 or more. Failing this will force you to start the last hypnosis session.

After the final hypnosis session, you'll be given a few choices to react to Kotone's deeply controlling hypnosis:


 * 1) "'I-I love you.'",
 * 2) "'A-Are you sure you don't want to tease and torment me..?'",
 * 3) "'Th-That was amazing...'",
 * 4) "Stay quiet.", and
 * 5) "Glare at her defiantly." -- will all progress you normally.
 * 6) "'I-I trusted you.'" -- Leads to another set of choices:
 * 7) "'B-But- I-' (Break down crying.)" -- This will make Kotone apologize for going overboard with her controlling nature, and will give you another set of choices:
 * 8) "'I loved it... But...'"
 * 9) "'It was really relaxing...'"
 * 10) "'Not really...'" -- All three will lead to normal progression as well, and will change the dialogue slightly when you leave.
 * 11) "Stay quiet.", and
 * 12) "Glare at her defiantly." -- both do the same as the choices in the first menu.

No matter which choice you pick, you will progress normally through the content and obtain the Kotone's Hypno Slave perk. The only way to break it off with Kotone is through purposeful choice, so have no fear on that front.

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
1/2/3. After passing Kotone's challenge, she will take you to her room where a deluge of options can be accessed. From here on, any points you gain go to a separate point counter for Kotone, and you will need points total to see all current content. First however, I will run through what's changed in the hypnosis room's choices. You can now select any hypnosis session you'd like to replay, as well as go to Kotone's room from here. Some of her talk options will now give you progress towards your relationship with her as well:


 * 1) "Will trials.", and
 * 2) "Incense." -- do nothing.
 * 3) "The lighting." -- gives a choice:
 * 4) "Light a candle." -- Awards 2 points and gives another choice:
 * 5) "Console." -- Awards 1 point.
 * 6) "This is your own fault." -- Awards no points, and you cannot view this scene again to get the point above.
 * 7) "Let's not." -- Ends the conversation.
 * 8) "Fluffy ears and tail..." -- Leads to some choices:
 * 9) "Fluffy Ears." -- Awards 1 point.
 * 10) "Fluffy Tail." -- Leads to another small choice:
 * 11) "Touch." -- Awards 1 point.
 * 12) "Don't touch." -- Brings you to another choice with the same effects as these, except the "don't touch" option will end the conversation.
 * 13) "No." -- Ends the conversation.
 * 14) "Free me from your control." -- Brings you to a menu where you can choose to keep or discard the hypnotic effects from Kotone. You need to keep them to continue Kotone's content.
 * 15) "Done talking." -- Ends the conversation.

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).