Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari – Love For Hire – Walkthrough & Guide

Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari – Love For Hire works on a ‘ladder system’. After a certain point, you can choose to jump off onto a route or continue making choices further down the ladder. This guide will tell you which choices to make to access each route and how to get a couple of missable CGs. It’s intended as a no-spoiler guide, but a few things may be guessed from some choices. It assumes that you are playing the full uncensored version from retailers such as Denpasoft / JAST USA or the Steam version with the 18+ patch applied.

If you’ve not checked out the game yet, please check out our detailed review here.

There are four full routes, two side routes, and a bad end. Steam achievements require completing all of these. These routes can be done in any order.

The First Steps

The first seven steps don’t matter in terms of getting onto a route. You are free to choose any of the following:

Fast Food/Karaoke/Hotel

I’ll go/I refuse/I’ll fade into the sunset on a beach far away from you

Tsubaki-san/Elder Hinayama/Konatsu

Give Chinatsu a lap seat/Peek up Konatsu’s skirt/Stand up

Just you, Tsubaki-san/Depends on the girl

Swim with Emi/Talk with Tenma*/Retrieve Konatsu*

She’s just Emi’s friend/Tenma and I have a secret relationship

Missable CGs

On the sixth step, I’d recommend choosing Talk with Tenma and Retrieve Konatsu at least once each. These both show a CG for the character mentioned. The Swim with Emi option does not.

After the above seven steps, I’d suggest saving. You can then follow the below steps to get onto each character route.

Tsubaki

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

I’ll chase after Tsubaki-san.

Chinatsu and Konatsu

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

WE’ll chase after Tsubaki-san

Chinatsu and Konatsu

Saki (Side Route)

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

WE’ll chase after Tsubaki-san

Tsuki

Calm Mihama down first

Emi

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

WE’ll chase after Tsubaki-san

Tsuki

Believe in Emi and stay put

I’ve made up my mind.

Choose Emi’s bank book

Hasumi

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

WE’ll chase after Tsubaki-san

Tsuki

Believe in Emi and stay put

I’ve made up my mind.

Choose Hasumi’s cash

Momoko (Side Route)

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

WE’ll chase after Tsubaki-san

Tsuki

Believe in Emi and stay put

I can’t choose

I don’t know if it will.

Bad End (Required for Steam Achievement)

Follow everything in ‘The First Steps Section’, then choose the following:

WE’ll chase after Tsubaki-san

Tsuki

Believe in Emi and stay put

I can’t choose

I just wanna be friendly acquaintances

Want to see more Visual Novels? How about our review of Sankaku Renai?

Many thanks go to NekoNyan for a PC review code for this title.