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In the year 2010, I, the great mad scientist Hououin Kyouma, pioneered a form of science no one had ever seen before. I became the world's first successful time traveler, inasmuch as the term 'first' can be said to apply to such a science. Moreover, I became the first person to bear all of my memories through the shift in world lines, remembering history as it was before I tampered with time.
Eventually, I managed to bring the timeline to a stable resting point, the unique world line I have dubbed Steins;Gate. A world line where dystopia did not loom in our future, and where the present day was not marred by the deaths of my dearest friends. A world I could accept.
Which is not to say a bright future is guaranteed. There are countless other disasters the world could collapse in to. Another international organization could rise up into a globe-girdling tyranny. Another world war could break out for entirely different reasons. Or perhaps something different – perhaps a terrorist cult will release a virus into the earth's atmosphere that will induce nine-tenths of the world's population to commit suicide. Robots could rise up and slaughter the entirety of mankind. The sun could even unexpectedly destabilize and burn Earth to a cinder.
But even without such potential doomsday scenarios, it is also a world where the five newer members of the Future Gadget Laboratory had not joined us. Where the events bonding us together during the three weeks I experimented with time travel and we faced off against the machinations of SERN never happened. There is much to this world that I need to adapt to and understand. Even past events may have been changed.
I have decided to keep a journal of sorts. Not of my day-to-day actions, but of my knowledge. What I know of my friends that may or may not be true here, and the things I discover about them that are new to me. For my own reference, and as insurance against certain future possibilities.
This is a fresh start, for me and for the world. I will strive to do it justice.