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This TIP has a siren not because it’s particularly essential to the plot, but because it is one of the very, very few choices you get in the sound novel.
VIDEO: Himatsubushi-hen | TIP 9: What’s in the Box?
BGM: Days of children #3 | Days of children #3 (Radiata Alice Version)
There are many people who lament the following:
If there only existed points in life where there were clear choices to make, we would be able to scrutinize those carefully and make decisions that would lead us to a better future.
Every time I hear people lament as such, I cast it off as a rather trivial worry.
Even if you were given a clear choice, it wouldn't be meaningful at all, and there wouldn't be any such path to a better future.
...Is this hard to understand?
In other words, you have two clear choices.
Do you open the red box, or the blue box?
A lot of things would be uncertain even with that choice, wouldn't they?
If you don't have the option of opening neither, then your choice boils down to the natural impulse of opening the box that holds the better result for you.
Then, after examining the shape and features of each, and pondering a great many things, you have to pick either the red or the blue.
...If this was you, which box would you open?
Red or blue?
However, that doesn't automatically mean that it would be calm and relaxing inside the blue box, either.
In fact, it might even be that the colors are a trap, make you wary of the red box and have you open the blue.
A trap?
...Could it be the contents of the box aren't a reward, but rather a penalty?
See...? Now you're at a loss.
You're so conflicted over the choice between red and blue that you've started wishing there was an option to open neither and just leave.
But there isn't. You have to open either the red box or the blue box.
So you'll never know the contents of box you don't open. I'll just put that rule at the end there for you.
Now. Why don't you choose?
The red box, or the blue box?
...It's all right, you won't lose anything by picking either one. ...Come on now.
...
Okay, okay, fine, we can play along. What box will it be?
Choose the red box
Choose the blue box