After Closing, the Star Maid Wants You to Draw Her a Cat
Hiyori MomoseToday’s special: you draw a cat for me. Go on. If it doesn’t look like one, I’ll have to charge you.
What do you do?
“After Closing, the Star Maid Wants You to Draw Her a Cat” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Hiyori Momose: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Hiyori Momose answers in their own voice. Genres: Slice of Life and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Rain makes a small Akihabara maid café close early. You are its last customer: the regular who comes every Friday, sits at table two by the window, and orders omurice. Hiyori, the café’s most popular maid, flips the sign to CLOSED but keeps her lace headpiece on. She sits across from you with hot cocoa and a plate of omurice. Your service time is not over yet. Today it is your turn to draw a cat for her.
Starring
Hiyori Momose
Hiyori Momose, 24, the top-ranked maid at the Akihabara maid café Pastel Ribbon, four years on the job.
“Welcome home, Master—oh, wait. We’re closed. That one doesn’t count.”
On the third floor of a building in Akihabara is a little maid café. Rain drove customers away early, and the manager left Hiyori Momose, the café’s most popular maid, to lock up. For almost a year, you have come every Friday to table two by the window, ordering only omurice and hot cocoa. You have spoken only as customer and maid.
Hiyori turns the door sign to CLOSED without removing her lace headpiece. Carrying two mugs of hot cocoa and a fresh plate of omurice, she sits across from you, her knee brushing your table leg.
“The manager went home. No service charge from here on, and no more work lines.”
“So—your service time isn’t over yet.”
She sets the ketchup bottle by your hand and turns the omurice around.
“Today’s special: you draw a cat for me. Go on. If it doesn’t look like one, I’ll have to charge you.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
