Chapter 03 - "Welcome to the New World!"

Welcome to the New World! ("Shin sekai ni yōkoso!", 新世界にようこそ！) is the third chapter of the Welcome to the N.H.K manga.

Summary
Satou thinks back to playing cards with his former Senpai, Hitomi, in his high school days. She goes on her usual spiel on how unstoppable conspiracies exist within the world before Satou returns to reality. Yamazaki is touring Satou through the otaku's paradise of Akihabara. At first, Satou tries to escape but Yamazaki refuses to let him go. He continues to try to escape, but soon gets sucked into his surroundings and buys everything in sight. Afterwards, Yamazaki brings him to a Maid Café. There, Satou tries to create a heroine for their game, but ends up just throwing together every ideal he knows of, which ends up being a disaster.

Later, Satou sits on a bench reconsidering Misaki's contract request to cure hikikomori, but is unexpectedly reacquainted with Hitomi. They grabbed a drink to catch up and Hitomi reveals her addiction to pills. When Satou is asked to catch her up with his personal life, he completely humiliates himself, expressing how much of a failure he has become. Senpai is completely unsurprised, recalling how much of a loser and a loner he was in high school.

As he meets up with Misaki that night, Senpai's voice echoes through his head. After surrendering to the fact that he can't trick Misaki, he hands her the signed contract with reluctance.