never seen this novel, stumbled across it randomly, so here are my questions. is this really free? do i need to buy DLS's in order to fully experience the main story? how long is it? im not scared of long vn's, enjoyed my way through ryukishi's monstrous in size "when they cry" series, so im just curious how long will it take me to read it all, the longer the better)...

I don't know why but it's only been a day since I played, I launch the game and I see that I have 0 saves, does anyone have a solution to find them?

Is it like an absolute need for the story to feel complete / ended, or is it just for people who really like the other 2 girls? I heard things like Kasumi(?)'s route is the "true ending", so do I need to buy it for the full story?

the player count numbers are kinda low and idk if its worth buying

It happens on both of them, when i run the game, the software runs and there's audio but it's just black screen and i noticed that there is no option ribbons (like File,Config and Help) at the top of the software. But when i dock the handheld device at a monitor, it shows the visuals and the option ribbons shows perfectly fine. i tried googling and asking Discord and no one has any solutions at all. It seems like it's only this game that i have this issue on, any other VN works perfectly fine....