If you already speedran this game on Main Categories, you realized that the first route was poorly improved, it was more of a power play instead of a speedrun, then new improvements came, we discovered that the traitor ending is the fastest one, we had Shinnosuke's inklings skips which saved about 1 minute and half, and now i discovered another skip that can save about 20~30 seconds, which consists into skipping the 2nd sleep time (going from Shinnosuke's inkling straight to Kota without having to sleep a 2nd time). But for first, i need to explain how the Clock System works before teaching the skip.

[EXPLAINING THE CLOCK SYSTEM]

This game works w/ a basic clock system, passing hours and days, just like normal RPG and Open World games, but the clock only run when you are passing through scenarios, this clock will always freeze during the following occasions:

• Cutscenes
• Interacting with NPCs
• Pausing the game

NOTE: None of this occasions stops the In-Game Time, it keeps running until you beat the game, no matter what you do.

However, every time that you Warp to a new location, the clock automatically advances 1 hour, and since most of the inklings can only be activated during specific times of the day, you need to sleep and advance time to be able to activate these inklings, and there is 6 different times of the day available to sleep and advance time: MORNING, NOON, EVENING, NIGHT, MIDNIGHT and DAWN.

[HOW TO SKIP THE 2ND SLEEP TIME]

During the speedrun, we use to go to Takatane Village to sleep 2 times, one after Munechika's inkling and the second one after Shinnosuke's inkling, 1st sleep to wake up at Night to trigger both Minori and Shinnosuke's inkling and the 2nd sleep to wake up at Morning to trigger Kota and Castle Amana's inkling. After a lot of research, i tried to sleep the first time until DAWN, because you wake up 4:00 AM and by this time the Minori and Shinnosuke's inkling are still available, but the problem is, as we already know, every time that we warp to a new location the clock advances 1 hour and Shinnosuke's inkling disappear after 6:00AM, which is the right time that we get to Kuchihagahara, and by this point i considered that was literally impossible to skip any of the sleep times. When i was routing Pacifist% i discovered an option that allows to ''customize'' the sleep time (you can wake up at any time you want instead of selecting the pre-set sleep times).

While you are speedrunning the game, if you get a decent time pace, you will be at Munechika's inkling between 15:00PM~16:00PM which is the perfect time to do this skip:

After triggering Munechika's Inkling, go home, select the 'Time' option, if your actual time of the day is between 15:00PM16:00PM, then sleep 12 hours, it will take you between 3:00AM4:00AM

Warp to Castle Minori - time advances 1 hour (3:00AM4:00AM) [MIDNIGHT] Warp to Kuchihagahara - time advances 1 hour (4:00AM5:00AM) [DAWN] When you open the Map for the 3rd time, Kota's inkling will not be available because its still DAWN, then, Warp to Takatane, and the time will advance +1 hour (5:00AM6:00AM) and Kota's inkling will be available, and you will no longer need to sleep a 2nd time just to get his inkling, and from this point you can also go straight to Castle Amana after Kota (the time will be between 6:00AM7:00AM) to trigger the last inkling.

NOTE: I'm trying to improve even more, maybe i will find a glitch to enter Shuzen's Room and then kill him in order to get an easy sub 5 on main categories, see ya!